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)
"Ða wearð seo menigu swiðe ablicged, and mid wundrunge cwædon, La hú, ne
sind þas ðe her sprecað Galileisce? And ure ælc gehyrde hu hi spræcon urum
gereordum, on ðam ðe we acennede wæron! We gehyrdon hí sprecan Godes mærða
mid urum gereordum. La hwæt ðis beon sceole? Þa cwædon ða Iudeiscan mid
hospe, Þas men sindon mid muste fordrencte. Þa andwyrde Petrus, Hit is
undern-tíd; hu mihte we on ðysre tide beon fordrencte? Ac ðæs witegan cwyde
Ioheles is nu gefylled. God cwæð þurh ðæs witegan muð, þæt he wolde his
Gast asendan ofer mennisc flæsc; and manna bearn sceolon witigian, and ic
sylle mine forebeacn ufan of heofonum, and mine tácna niðer on eorðan. Wite
ge soðlice þæt Crist arás of deaðe, and on ure gewitnysse astah to
heofonum, and sitt æt his Fæder swiðran, swa swa Dauid be him witegode, þus
cweðende, Drihten cwæð to minum Drihtne, Site to minre swiðran, oðþæt ic
alecge ðine fynd under þinum fot-scamele. Þa þæt folc ðis gehyrde, ða
wurdon hí onbryrde, and cwædon to ðam apostolon, La leof, hwæt is us to
donne? Þa andwyrde Petrus, Behreowsiað eowre synna, and underfoð fulluht on
Cristes naman, and eowre synna beoð {316} adylegode, and ge underfoð þone
Halgan Gast. Þa underfengon hi his lare, and bugon to fulluhte on ðam dæge
ðreo ðusend manna. Þa wæron ealle on annysse mid þam apostolum, and
beceapodon heora æhta, and þæt feoh betæhton ðam apostolum, and hi dældon
ælcum be his neode."
"Eft on oðre bodunge gelyfdon fif ðusend wera on Crist, and wearð eall seo
geleaffulle menigu swa anmod swilce hí ealle hæfdon ane heortan and ane
sawle; ne heora nan næfde synderlice æhta, ac him eallum wæs gemæne heora
ðing, ne ðær næs nán wædla betwux him. Þa ðe land-are hæfdon hi hit
beceapodon, and þæt wurð brohton to ðæra apostola fotum: hí ða dældon ælcum
be his neode."
"Þa worhte God fela tacna on ðam folce ðurh ðæra apostola handa, swa þæt hi
gelogodon ða untruman be ðære stræt þær Petrus forð eode, and swa hraðe swa
his sceadu hi hreopode, hi wurdon gehælede fram eallum untrumnyssum. Þa arn
micel menigu to of gehendum burgum, and brohton heora untruman and ða
deofol-seocan, and hí ealle wurdon gehælede æt ðæra apostola handum. Hi
setton heora handa ofer gelyfede men, and hí underfengon þone Halgan Gast."
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