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)
Stán is gesett ongean ðone hláf, forðan ðe heardmodnys is wiðerræde soðre
lufe. Heardheort bið se mann, ðe nele þurh lufe oðrum fremigan, þær ðær hé
mæg. Þæt godspel cwæð, "Gif ge cunnon, þa ðe yfele sind, syllan ða gódnysse
eowrum bearnum, hu micele swiðor wile eower Heofonlica Fæder forgyfan gódne
gast him biddendum." Hwæt sind ða gód þe men syllað heora cildum?
Hwilwendlice gódnyssa, swylce swa þæt godspel hrepode, hláf, and fisc, and
æig. Góde sind þas ðing be heora mæðe, forðan ðe se eorðlica lichama
behofað þæs fodan. Nu ge, gleawe men, nellað syllan eowrum cildum næddran
for fisce, nele eac ure Heofonlica Fæder us syllan þæs deofles geleaflæste,
gif we hine biddað þæt he ús sylle soðne geleafan. And ðu nelt syllan ðinum
bearne þrowend for ǽge, nele eac God us syllan orwenysse for hihte. And ðu
nelt ðinum bearne syllan stán for hláfe, nele eac God us syllan
heardheortnysse for soðre lufe. Ac se goda Heofonlica Fæder forgifð us
geleafan, and {254} hiht, and ða soðan lufe, and deð þæt we habbað gódne
gast, þæt is, gódne willan.
Us is to smeagenne þæt word þe he cwæð, "Ge ðe sind yfele." Yfele we sind,
ac we habbað gódne Fæder. We habbað gehyred urne naman, "Ge ðe synt yfele."
Ac hwá is ure Fæder? Se Ælmihtiga God. And hwilcera manna Fæder is he?
Swutelice hit is gesǽd, yfelra manna. And hwilc is se Fæder? Be ðam þe is
gecweden, "Nis nan man gód butan Gode anum." Se ðe æfre is gód, he brincð
us yfele to gódum mannum, gif we bugað fram yfele, and doð gód. Gód wæs se
man gesceapen Adam, ac ðurh his agenne cyre, and deofles tihtinge, he wearð
yfel, and eal his ofspring. Se ðe synful bið, he bið yfel, and nán man nis
on lífe butan sumere synne. Ac ure góda Fæder us geclænsað and gehælð, swa
swa se witega cwæð, "Drihten, gehæl me, and ic beo gehæled; geheald þu me,
and ic beo gehealden."
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