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)
On ðam oðrum dæge eode se apostol be ðære stræt, þa ofseah he hwær sum
uðwita lædde twegen gebroðru, þe hæfdon behwyrfed eall heora yldrena
gestreon on deorwurðum gymstanum, and woldon ða tocwysan on ealles þæs
folces gesihðe, to wæfersyne, swylce to forsewennysse woruldlicra æhta. Hit
wæs gewunelic on ðam timan þæt ða ðe woldon woruld-wisdom gecneordlice
leornian, þæt hí behwyrfdon heora are on gymstanum, and ða tobræcon; oððe
on sumum gyldenum wecge, and ðone on sǽ awurpan; þilæs ðe seo smeaung þæra
æhta hí æt þære lare hremde. Þa clypode se apostol ðone uðwitan Graton him
to, and cwæð, "Dyslic bið þæt hwa woruldlice speda forhogige for manna
hérunge, and beo on Godes dome geniðerod. Ydel bið se læcedom þe ne mæg
ðone untruman gehælan; swa bið eac ydel seo lár ðe ne gehælð ðære sawle
leahtras and unðeawas. {62} Soðlice min lareow Crist sumne cniht ðe
gewilnode þæs ecan lifes þysum wordum lærde, Þæt he sceolde ealle his welan
beceapian, and þæt wurð ðearfum dælan, gif hé wolde fulfremed beon, and he
syððan hæfde his goldhord on heofenum, and ðær to-eacan þæt ece líf."
Graton ða se uðwita him andwyrde, "Þas gymstanas synd tocwysede for ydelum
gylpe, ac gif ðin láreow is soð God, gefeg ðas bricas to ansundnysse, þæt
heora wurð mæge þearfum fremian." Iohannes þa gegaderode ðæra gymstana
bricas, and beseah to heofonum, þus cweðende, "Drihten Hælend, nis ðe nan
ðing earfoðe; þu ge-edstaðelodest ðisne tobrocenan middangeard on þinum
geleaffullum, þurh tácen þære halgan rode; ge-edstaðela nu þas deorwurðan
gymstanas, ðurh ðinra engla handa, þæt ðas nytenan menn þine mihta
oncnáwon, and on þe gelyfon." Hwæt, ða færlice wurdon ða gymstanas swa
ansunde, þæt furðon nan tácen þære ærran tocwysednysse næs gesewen. Þa se
uðwita Graton samod mid þam cnihtum feoll to Iohannes fotum, gelyfende on
God. Se apostol hine fullode mid eallum his hirede, and hé ongann Godes
geleafan openlice bodian. Þa twegen gebroðra, Atticus and Eugenius, sealdon
heora gymstanas, and ealle heora æhta dældon wǽdlum, and filigdon þam
apostole, and micel menigu geleaffulra him eac to geðeodde.
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