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)
Wite gehwá eac, þæt nan man ne mot beon tuwa gefullod; ac gif se man æfter
his fulluhte aslide, we gelyfað þæt he mæge beon gehealden, gif he his
synna mid wope behreowsiað, and be lareowa tæcunge hí gebet. We sceolon
gelyfan þæt ælces mannes sawul bið þurh God gesceapen, ac hwæðere heo ne
bið na of Godes agenum gecynde. Þæs mannes lichaman antimber bið of ðam
fæder and of ðære meder, ac God gescypð þone lichaman of ðam antimbre, and
asent on þone lichaman sawle. Ne bið seo sawl nahwar wunigende ǽror, ac God
hí gescypð þærrihte, and beset on ðone lichaman, and læt hí habban agenne
cyre, swa heo syngige swa heo synna forbuge. Þeah-hwæðere heo behófað æfre
Godes fultumes, þæt heo mæge synna forbugan, and eft to hyre Scyppende
gecuman þurh gode geearnunga; forðon ðe nan man ne deð butan Gode nan ðing
to góde.
{294} Eac we sceolon gelyfan þæt ælc lichama ðe sawle underfeng sceal
arisan on domes dæge mid þam ylcum lichaman þe he nu hæfð, and sceal onfón
edlean ealra his dæda: þonne habbað ða gódan ece líf mid Gode, and he sylð
þa méde ælcum be his geearnungum. Þa synfullan beoð on helle-wite á
ðrowigende, and heora wite bið eac gemetegod ælcum be his ge-earnungum.
Uton forði geearnian þæt ece líf mid Gode þurh ðisne geleafan, and ðurh
gode geearnunga, seðe þurhwunað on Ðrynnysse án Ælmihtig God áá on ecnysse.
Amen.
WEDNESDAY.
OF THE CATHOLIC FAITH.
Every christian man should by right know both his Pater noster and his
Creed. With the Pater noster he should pray, with the Creed he should
confirm his faith. We have spoken concerning the Pater noster, we will now
declare to you the faith which stands in the Creed, according to the wise
Augustine's exposition of the Holy Trinity.
There is one Creator of all things, visible and invisible; and we should
all believe in him, for he is true and God alone Almighty, who never either
began or had beginning; but he is himself beginning, and he to all
creatures gave beginning and origin, that they might be, and that they
might have their own nature, so as it seemed good to the divine
dispensation. {277} Angels he created, which are spirits, and have no body.
Men he created with spirit and with body. Cattle and other beasts, fishes
and birds he created in flesh without soul. To men he gave an upright gait;
the cattle he let go bending downwards. To men he gave bread for
sustenance, and to the cattle grass.
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