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)
Seofon gebédu, swa swa we ær sædon, beoð on ðam Pater noster. Þa ðreo
forman gebédu beoð us ongunnene on ðysre worulde, ac hí beoð á ungeendode
on þære toweardan worulde. Seo halgung þæs mæran naman Godes ongann ús
mannum þaþa Crist wearð geflæschamod mid ure menniscnysse; ac seo ylce
halgung wunað on ecnysse, forðan ðe we on ðam ecan life bletsiað and
herigað æfre Godes naman. And God rixað nu, and his ríce stent æfre butan
ende, and Godes willa bið gefremod on ðisum life ðurh góde menn: se ylca
willa wunað á on ecnysse. Þa oðre feower gebédu belimpað to ðisum life, and
mid þisum life geendiað.
On ðisum lífe we behófiað hláfes, and láre, and husel-ganges. On þam
toweardan lífe we ne behófiað nanes eorðlices bigleofan, forðan ðe we þonne
mid þam heofonlicum mettum beoð gereordode. Her we behófiað láre and
wisdomes. On ðam heofonlican life beoð ealle ful wíse, and on gastlicre
lare full geráde, þa ðe nu, þurh wísra manna láre, beoð Godes bebodum
underþeodde. And her we behófiað ðæs halgan husles {272} ðygene for ure
beterunge, soðlice on ðære heofonlican wununge we habbað mid us Cristes
lichaman, mid þam he rixað on ecnysse.
On þyssere worulde we biddað ure synna forgyfenysse, and na on þære
toweardan. Se man ðe nele his synna behreowsian on his life, ne begyt he
nane forgyfenysse on ðam toweardan. And on ðisum life we biddað þæt God us
gescylde wið deofles costnunga, and us alyse fram yfele. On ðam ecan life
ne bið nán costnung ne nán yfel; forði ðær ne cymð nán deofol ne nán yfel
mann, ðe us mæge dreccan oððe derian. Þær beoð geþwære sawul and lichama,
þe nu on ðisum life him betweonan winnað. Ðær ne bið nán untrumnys, ne
geswinc, ne wana nanre gódnysse, ac Crist bið mid ús eallum, and ús ealle
ðing deð, butan edwite, mid ealre blisse.
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