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 synfullan geseoð nu hwiltidum ða gecorenan on wuldre, ðe hi forsawon on
worulde, þæt seo angsumnys heora modes ðe mare sy: and ða rihtwisan symle
geseoð ða unrihtwisan on heora tintregum cwylmigende, þæt heora bliss ðe
mare sy, and lufu to heora Drihtne, þe hi ahredde fram deofles anwealde,
and fram ðam mánfullum heape. Ne astyrað þæra rihtwisra gesihð him nænne
ógan, ne heora wuldor ne wanað; forðan ðe ðær ne bið nán besargung ðæra
mánfulra yrmðe, ac heora tintrega becymð þam gecorenum to maran blisse, swa
swa on metinge bið forsewen seo blace anlicnys, þæt seo hwite sy beorhtre
gesewen. Þa gecorenan geseoð symle heora Scyppendes beorhtnysse, and forði
nis nan ðing on gesceaftum him bediglod.
Se welega nolde on life gehyran ðone lareow Moysen, ne Godes witegan: ða
wende he eac þæt his gebroðra hí woldon forseon, swa swa he dyde, and
gyrnde forði þæt Lazarus hí moste warnigan, þæt hí ne becomon to his susle.
Se heahfæder him andwyrde, "Gif hi forseoð Moyses ǽ and ðæra witegena
bodunga, nellað hí gelyfan, þeah hwá of deaðe arise." Þa ðe forgimeleasiað
þa eaðelican beboda þære ealdan ǽ, hu willað hí ðonne gehyrsumian þam
healicum bebodum Cristes lare, ðe of deaðe arás?
Ic bidde eow, mine gebroðra, þæt ge beon gemyndige ðæs Lazares reste and
ðæs rican wite, and doð swa swa Crist sylf tæhte, "Tiliað eow freonda on
Godes ðearfum, þæt hí on eowrum geendungum onfon eow into ecum
eardung-stowum." Manega Lazaras ge habbað nu licgende æt eowrum gatum,
biddende eowre oferflowendnysse. Ðeah ðe hí syn wáclice geðuhte,
þeah-hwæðere hí beoð eft eowre ðingeras wið ðone Ælmihtigan. Soðlice we
sceoldon beodan þam ðearfum þæt hí us biddað, forðan ðe hí beoð ure
mundboran, þa ðe nu wædligende æt us bigleofan wilniað. Ne sceole we
forseon {336} heora wácnysse, forðan ðe Criste bið geðenod þurh ðearfena
anfenge, swa swa he sylf cwæð, "Me hingrode, and ge me gereordodon; me
ðyrste, and ge me scencton; ic wæs nacod, and ge me scryddon."
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