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 apostoli and ealle ða gecorenan ðe him geefenlæhton beoð deman on ðam
micclum dæge mid Criste. Þær beoð feower werod æt ðam dome, twa gecorenra
manna, and twa wiðercorenra. Þæt forme werod bið þæra apostola and heora
efenlæcendra, þa ðe ealle woruld-ðing for Godes naman forleton: hí beoð ða
demeras, and him ne bið nan dóm gedemed. Oðer endebyrdnys bið geleaffulra
woruld-manna: him bið dóm gesett, swa þæt hi beoð asyndrede fram gemanan
ðæra wiðercorenra, þus cweðendum Drihtne, "Cumað to me, ge gebletsode mines
Fæder, and onfoð þæt ríce ðe eow is gegearcod fram frymðe middangeardes."
An endebyrdnys bið þæra wiðercorenra, þa þe ciððe hæfdon to Gode, ac hí ne
beeodon heora geleafan mid Godes bebodum: ðas beoð fordemede. Oðer
endebyrdnys bið þæra hæðenra manna, þe nane cyððe to Gode næfdon: þisum bið
gelæst se apostolica cwyde, "Ða ðe butan Godes ǽ syngodon, hí eac losiað
butan ælcere ǽ." To ðisum twam endebyrdnyssum cweð þonne se rihtwisa Dema,
"Gewitað fram me, ge awyrigedan, into ðam ecum fyre, þe is gegearcod deofle
and his awyrgedum gastum."
Þæt godspel cwyð forð gyt, "Ælc ðæra ðe forlæt, for {398} minum naman,
fæder oððe moder, gebroðru oððe geswystru, wíf oððe bearn, land oððe
gebytlu, be hundfealdum him bið forgolden, and he hæfð ðær-to-eacan þæt ece
líf." Hundfeald getel is fulfremed, and se ðe forlæt ða ateorigendlican
ðing for Godes naman, he underfehð þa gastlican mede be hundfealdum æt
Gode. Ðes cwyde belimpð swyðe to munuchádes mannum, ða ðe for heofenan
ríces myrhðe forlætað fæder, and moder, and flæsclice siblingas. Hí
underfoð manega gastlice fæderas and gastlice gebroðru, forðan ðe ealle þæs
hádes menn, ðe regollice lybbað, beoð him to fæderum and to gebroðrum
getealde, and þær-to-eacan hí beoð mid edleane þæs ecan lifes gewelgode. Þa
ðe ealle woruld-ðing be Godes hæse forseoð, and on gemænum ðingum bigwiste
habbað, hí beoð fulfremede, and to ðam apostolum geendebyrde. Ða oðre ðe
ðas geðincðe nabbað, þæt hi ealle heora æhta samod forlætan magon, hí dón
þonne ðone dæl for Godes naman ðe him to onhagige, and him bið be
hundfealdum écelice geleanod swa hwæt swa hí be anfealdum hwilwendlice
dælað.
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