The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church: Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of Ælfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I.Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham
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The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church: Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of Ælfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I.
Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham
Sermons, English (Old)
Þær wæron getealde æt ðam gereorde fif ðusend wera; forðon þe ða menn, þe
to ðam gastlican gereorde belimpað, sceolon beon werlice geworhte, swa swa
se apostol cwæð; he cwæð, "Beoð wacole, and standað on geleafan, and
onginnað werlice, and beoð gehyrte." Ðeah gif wifmann bið werlice geworht,
and strang to Godes willan, heo bið þonne geteald to ðam werum þe æt Godes
mysan sittað. Þusend getel bið fulfremed, and ne astihð nán getel ofer þæt.
Mid {190} þam getele bið getácnod seo fulfremednys ðæra manna ðe gereordiað
heora sawla mid Godes láre.
"Se Hælend het þa gegadrian þa láfe, þæt hí losian ne sceoldon; and hí ða
gefyldon twelf wilion mid þam bricum." Ða láfe ðæs gereordes, þæt sind ða
deopnyssa ðære láre þe worold-men understandan ne magon, þa sceolon ða
lareowas gegaderian, þæt hí ne losian, and healdan on heora fætelsum, þæt
is, on heora heortan, and habban æfre gearo, to teonne forð þone wisdom and
ða lare ægðer ge ðære ealdan ǽ ge ðære niwan. Hí ða gegaderodon twelf
wilian fulle mid þam bricum. Þæt twelffealde getel getacnode þa twelf
apostolas; forðan þe hí underfengon þa digelnyssa þære láre, ðe þæt læwede
folc undergitan ne mihte.
"Þæt folc, ða þe þæt wundor geseah, cwædon be Criste, þæt he wære soð
wítega, ðe toweard wæs." Soð hí sædon, sumera ðinga: wítega hé wæs, forðan
ðe hé wiste ealle towearde þing, and eac fela ðing wítegode, ðe beoð
gefyllede butan twyn. He is witega, and he is ealra witegena witegung,
forðan ðe ealle wítegan be him witegodon, and Crist gefylde heora ealra
witegunga. Þæt folc geseah ða þæt wundor, and hí ðæs swiðe wundredon. Þæt
wundor is awriten, and we hit gehyrdon. Þæt ðe on him heora eagan gedydon,
þæt deð ure geleafa on ús. Hí hit gesawon, and we his gelyfað þe hit ne
gesawon; and we sind forði beteran getealde, swa swa se Hælend be ús on
oðre stowe cwæð, "Eadige beoð þa þe me ne geseoð, and hi hwæðere gelyfað on
me, and mine wundra mærsiað."
Þæt folc cwæð ða be Criste, þæt he wære soð witega. Nu cweðe we be Criste,
þæt he is ðæs Lifigendan Godes Sunu, seðe wæs toweard to alysenne ealne
middangeard fram deofles anwealde, and fram helle-wíte. Þæt folc ne cuðe
ðæra goda, þæt hí cwædon, þæt he God wære, ac sædon, þæt he witega wære. We
cweðað nu, mid fullum geleafan, þæt Crist is soð witega, and ealra witegena
Witega, and þæt he is soðlice ðæs Ælmihtigan Godes Sunu, ealswa mihtig swa
his Fæder, {192} mid ðam hé leofað and rixað on annysse ðæs Halgan Gastes,
á butan ende on ecnysse. Amen.
MIDLENT SUNDAY.
Abiit Jesus trans mare Galileæ: et reliqua.
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