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. — John Shaqi
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)
pervertat nostram interpretationem, quam speramus ex Dei gratia, non causa
jactantiæ, nos studiose secuti valuimus interpretari. Precor modo obnixe
almitatem tuam, mitissime Pater SIGERICE, ut digneris corrigere per tuam
industriam, si aliquos nevos malignæ hæresis, aut nebulosæ fallaciæ in
nostra interpretatione repperies: et adscribatur dehinc hic codicillus tuæ
auctoritati, non utilitati nostræ despicabilis personæ. Vale in Deo
Omnipotenti jugiter. Amen.
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PRÆFATIO.
Ic Ælfric munuc and mæssepreost, swa þeah waccre þonne swilcum hadum
gebyrige, wearð asend on Æþelredes dæge cyninges fram Ælfeage biscope,
Aðelwoldes æftergengan, to sumum mynstre þe is Cernel gehaten, þurh
Æðelmæres bene ðæs þegenes, his gebyrd and goodnys sind gehwær cuþe. Þa
bearn me on mode, ic truwige þurh Godes gife, þæt ic ðas boc of Ledenum
gereorde to Engliscre spræce awende; na þurh gebylde mycelre lare, ac
forþan þe ic geseah and gehyrde mycel gedwyld on manegum Engliscum bocum,
þe ungelærede menn þurh heora bilewitnysse to micclum wisdome tealdon; and
me ofhreow þæt hí ne cuþon ne næfdon þa godspellican lare on heora
gewritum, buton þam mannum anum ðe þæt Leden cuðon, and buton þam bocum ðe
Ælfred cyning snoterlice awende of Ledene on Englisc, þa synd to hæbbene.
For þisum antimbre ic gedyrstlæhte, on Gode truwiende, þæt ic ðas
gesetnysse undergann, and eac forðam þe menn behofiað godre lare swiðost on
þisum timan þe is geendung þyssere worulde, and beoð fela frecednyssa on
mancynne ærðan þe se ende becume, swa swa ure Drihten on his godspelle cwæð
to his leorning-cnihtum, "Ðonne beoð swilce {4} gedreccednyssa swilce næron
næfre ær fram frymðe middangeardes. Manega lease Cristas cumað on minum
naman, cweðende, 'Ic eom Crist,' and wyrcað fela tacna and wundra, to
bepæcenne mancynn, and eac swylce þa gecorenan men, gif hit gewurþan mæg:
and butan se Ælmihtiga God ða dagas gescyrte, eall mennisc forwurde; ac for
his gecorenum he gescyrte þa dagas." Gehwá mæg þe eaðelicor ða toweardan
costnunge acuman, ðurh Godes fultum, gif hé bið þurh boclice lare
getrymmed; forðan ðe þa beoð gehealdene þe oð ende on geleafan þurhwuniað.
Fela gedreccednyssa and earfoðnysse becumað on þissere worulde ǽr hire
geendunge, and þa synd ða bydelas þæs ecan forwyrdes on yfelum mannum, þe
for heora mándædum siððan ecelice þrowiað on ðære sweartan helle. Þonne
cymð se Antecrist, se bið mennisc mann and soð deofol, swa swa ure Hælend
is soðlice mann and God on anum hade. And se gesewenlica deofol þonne wyrcð
ungerima wundra, and cwyð þæt he sylf God beo, and wile neadian mancynn to
his gedwylde; ac his tima ne bið na langsum; forþan þe Godes grama hine
fordeð, and þeos weoruld bið siððan geendod. Crist ure Drihten gehælde
untrume and adlige, and þes deofol þe is gehaten Antecrist, þæt is gereht,
ðwyrlic Crist, aleuað and geuntrumað ða halan, and nænne ne gehælð fram
untrumnyssum, buton þam anum þe he sylf ær awyrde. He and his gingran
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