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)
Þa gastlican wundra sind maran þonne þa lichamlican wæron, forðan ðe ðas
wundra gehælað þæs mannes sawle, ðe is ece, and ða ærran tacna gehældon
þone deadlican lichaman. Þa ærran wundra worhton ægðer ge góde men ge
yfele. Yfel wæs Iudas, ðe Crist belæwde, þeah he worhte wundra æror ðurh
Godes naman. Be swylcum mannum cwæð Crist on oðre stowe, "Ic secge eow,
manega cweðað to me on ðam micclan dæge, Drihten, Drihten, la hú ne
witegode we on ðinum naman, and we adræfdon deoflo of wodum mannum, and we
micele mihta on þinum naman gefremedon? Þonne andette ic him, Ne can ic
eow: gewitað fram me, ge unrihtwise wyrhtan." Mine gebroðru, ne lufige ge
ða wundra þe magon beon gemæne godum and yfelum, ac lufiað þa tacna þe sind
sinderlice godra manna, þæt synd soðre lufe and arfæstnysse tacna. Næfð se
yfela ða soðan lufe, ne se góda nys hyre bedæled. Þas tacna sind digle and
unpleolice, and hí habbað swa miccle maran edlean æt Gode, swa micclum swa
heora wuldor is læsse mid mannum. Se Wealdenda Drihten, æfter ðisum wordum,
wæs genumen to heofonum, and sitt on ða swiðran hand his Fæder.
We rædað on ðære ealdan ǽ, þæt twegen Godes men, {308} Enoh and Helias,
wæron ahafene to heofonum butan deaðe: ac hí elciað ongean ðone deað, and
mid ealle ne forfleoð. Hí sind genumene to lyftenre heofenan na to
rodorlicere, and drohtniað on sumum diglan earde mid micelre strencðe
lichaman and sawle, oðþæt hi eft ongean cyrron, on ende þisre worulde,
togeanes Antecriste, and deaðes onfoð. Ure Ælmihtiga Alysend ne elcode na
ongean þone deað, ac he hine oferswiðde mid his æriste, and geswutulode his
wuldor þurh his upstige to ðam yfemystan þrymsetle.
We rædað be ðam witegan Heliam, þæt englas hine feredon on heofonlicum
cræte, forðan ðe seo untrumnys his gecyndes behofode sumes byrðres. Ure
Alysend Crist næs geferod mid cræte ne ðurh engla fultum; forðan se ðe
ealle ðing geworhte, he wæs geferod mid his agenre mihte ofer ealle
gesceafta. Se ærra man Enoh wæs geferod to lyftenre heofonan, and Helias
wæs mid cræte up-awegen; ac se Ælmihtiga Hælend næs gefered ne awegen, ac
he ðurhferde ða roderlican heofonan þurh his agene mihte.
Us is to smeagenne hu seo clænnys wæs ðeonde geond þa geferedan ðenas, and
þurh ðone astigendan Hælend. Enoh wæs geferod, seðe wæs mid hæmede
gestryned, and mid hæmede wæs strynende. Helias wæs on cræte geferod, seðe
wæs þurh hæmed gestryned, ac he ne strynde þurh hæmed, forðan ðe he wunade
on his life butan wife. Se Hælend astah to heofonum, seðe næs mid hæmede
gestryned, ne he sylf strynende næs; forðan ðe he is ord and anginn ealra
clænnyssa, and him is seo clænnys swiðe lufigendlic mægen, þæt he
geswutulode ðaða he geceas him mæden-mann to meder. And eall se halga heap
ðe him fyligde wæs on clænnysse wunigende, swa swa he cwæð sumum godspelle,
"Se ðe to me cymð, ne mæg he beon min leorning-cniht, buton he his wif
hatige."
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