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)
micelre mede on ðære toweardan. Witodlice þurh ðines feondes lufe þu bist
Godes freond; and na þæt an þæt ðu his freond sy, ac eac swilce þu bist
Godes bearn, þurh ða rædene þæt þu þinne feond lufige; swa swa Crist sylf
cwæð, "Lufiað eowere fynd, doð þam tela þe eow hatiað, þæt ge beon eoweres
Fæder cild, seðe on heofenum is." Menigfealde earfoðnyssa and hospas wolde
gehwá eaðelice forberan wið þan þæt he moste sumum rican men to bearne
geteald beon, and his yrfenuma to gewitendlicum æhtum: forberað nu
geðyldelice for ðam ecan wurðmynte, þæt ge Godes bearn getealde beon, and
his yrfenuman on heofenlicum spedum, þæt þæt se oðer forðyldigan wolde for
ateorigendlicere edwiste.
We secgað eow Godes riht; healdað gif ge willon. Gif we hit forsuwiað, ne
bið us geborgen. Cristes lufu us neadað þæt we simle þa gódan tihton, þæt
hí on gódnysse þurhwunion; and ða yfelan we mynegiað, þæt hí fram heora
yfelnessum hrædlice gecyrron. Ne beo se rihtwisa gymeleas on his anginne,
ne se yfela ortruwige ðurh his unrihtwisnysse. Ondræde se goda þæt hé
fealle; hogige se yfela þæt hé astande. Se ðe yfel sy geefenlæce hé Paules
gecyrrednysse; se ðe gód sy þurhwunige hé on gódnysse mid Stephane; forðan
ðe ne bið nán anginn herigendlic butan godre geendunge. Ælc lof bið on ende
gesungen.
Mine gebroðra, gyrstan-dæg gemedemode ure Drihten hine sylfne, þæt hé ðysne
middangeard þurh soðe menniscnysse geneosode: nu to-dǽg se æðela cempa
Stephanus, fram lichamlicere wununge gewitende, sigefæst to heofenum ferde.
Crist niðer-astáh, mid flæsce bewæfed; Stephanus up-astáh, þurh his blod
gewuldorbeagod. Gyrstan-dæg sungon englas "Gode wuldor on heannyssum;" nu
to-dæg hí underfengon Stephanum blissigende on heora geferrædene, mid þam
hé wuldrað and blissað á on ecnysse. Amen.
DECEMBER XXVI.
THE PASSION OF THE BLESSED STEPHEN, PROTOMARTYR.
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