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)
Þæt sixte gebéd is, "Et ne nos inducas in temptationem:" þæt is, "Ne
geðafa, ðu God, þæt we beon gelædde on costnunge." Oðer is costnung, oðer
is fandung. God ne costnað nænne mannan; ac hwæðere nán man ne cymð to
Godes ríce, buton he sy afandod: forði ne sceole we na biddan þæt God ure
ne afandige, ac we sceolon biddan þæt God us gescylde, þæt we ne abreoðon
on ðære fandunge. Deofol mót ælces mannes afandigan, hwæðer he aht sy, oððe
naht; hwæðer he God mid inweardlicre heortan lufige, oððe he mid híwunge
fáre. Swa swa man afandað gold on fyre, swa afandað God þæs mannes mod on
mislicum fandungum, hwæðer hé ánræde sy. Genoh wel wát God hu hit getimað
on þære fandunge; ac hwæðere se man næfð na mycele geðincðe, buton he
afandod sy. Þurh ða fandunge he sceal geðeon, gif he þam costnungum
wiðstent. Gif he fealle, he eft astande: þæt is, gif he agylte, he hit
georne gebete, and syððan geswíce; forði ne bið nán bót naht, buton þær beo
geswicenes. Se man þe gelomlice wile syngian, and gelomlice betan, he
gremað God; and swa he swiðor syngað swa he deofle gewyldra bið, and hine
þonne God forlæt, and he færð swa him deofol wissað, swa swa tobrocen scíp
on sǽ, þe swa færð swa hit se wind drifð. Se goda man swa he swiðor afandod
bið swa he rotra bið, and near Gode, oðþæt hé mid fulre geðincðe færð of
ðisum life to ðam ecan life. And se yfela swa he oftor on ðære fandunge
abryð, swa he forcuðra bið, and deofle near, oðþæt he færð of ðisum life to
ðam ecan wite, gif he ær geswican nolde, þaþa he mihte and moste. Forði
anbidað God oft þæs yfelan mannes, and læt him fyrst, þæt he his mándæda
geswice, and his mód to Gode gecyrre ær his ende, gif he wile. Gif he þonne
nele, þæt {270} he beo butan ælcere ladunge swiðe rihtlice to deofles handa
asceofen. Forði is nu selre cristenum mannum, þæt hi mid earfoðnyssum and
mid geswince geearnian þæt éce ríce and ða écan blisse mid Gode and mid
eallum his halgum, ðonne hi mid softnysse and mid yfelum lustum geearnian
þa ecan tintrega mid eallum deoflum on helle-wíte.
Þæt seofoðe gebéd is, "Set libera nos a malo:" þæt is, "Ac alys us fram
yfele:" alys us fram deofle and fram eallum his syrwungum. God lufað us,
and deofol us hatað. God us fett and gefrefrað, and deofol us wile ofslean,
gif he mót; ac him bið forwyrned þurh Godes gescyldnysse, gif we us sylfe
nellað fordón mid unðeawum. Forði we sceolon forbugan and forseon þone
lyðran deoful mid eallum his lotwrencum, forðan ðe him ne gebyrað naht to
ús, and we sceolon lufian and filigan urum Drihtne, seðe us lǽt to ðam ecan
life.
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