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Chapter 101PrecesPriv.1.101

Preces Quotidianae

Evils in Church and State

A litany of biblical examples of heresy, schism, corrupt leadership, and political disorder, from which the church and commonwealth seek deliverance.

Heresies, schisms, public and private scandals, the deification of princes, cf.1 12.✦ 22.✦ Flattery of the people, cf. 24. 27. Saul's indifference, 1 Sam.2 15. Michal's contempt, 2 Samuel✦ 6. 16.✦ Hophni's fleshhook, 1 Samuel✦3 11. 18. Athaliah's plundering, 2 Kings4 11. (1.)5 From Micah's priesthood, Judges6 17. 10. From the brotherhood of Simon and Judas, Acts✦7 8. 18. From the teaching of the unlearned and unstable, the pride of new converts, and the people contradicting the priest.✦ From the terrible evils in the commonwealth—anarchy, a throng of princes, tyranny—: Asshur, Jeroboam, Rehoboam, Gallio, Haman, the counsel of Ahithophel, 2 Samuel8 15. 31. the unadvised counselors of Tanis, Isaiah✦9 19. 11]. the statutes of Omri, Micah10 6.✦ 16. from the judges of Jezreel, 1 Kings 21. 15. from the torrents of Belial, Psalm11 18. 4. The plague of Peor, Num. 25. 5. The Valley of Achor, Josh. 7. 26. Defilement of blood or of seed, (Lev. 18.12 25. Invasion by enemies, Num. 35. 33.]✦ Civil war, so that good people are removed from office and the wicked and crafty rise up.13 into the magistracy.14

Read the original Latin

Hseresibus, Schismatibus, Scandalis publieis et privatis, Apotheosi principum, cf. xii. 22. Adulatione populi, cf. xxiv. 27. Adiaphoria Saulis, 1 Sam. xv.

Contemptu Michal, 2 Sam. vi. 16. Fuscina Hophni, 1 Sam. 11. 18. Direptione Athal, 2 Reg. xi.

(1.] Sacerdotio Miche, Juwdic. xvii. 10. Fraternitate Simonis et Jud, Act. viii. 18. Indoctorum et instabilium doctrina, Neophytorum superbia, Populo contradicente Sacerdoti.

Ab atrocibus malis in. Republica, Anarchia, multitudine Principum, Tyrannide,: Ashur, Jeroboam, Roboam, Gallione, Haman, Achitophelis consilio, 2 Sam. xv. 31. Consiliaris Taneos inconsultis, se. xix. 11]. Legibus Omri Mich.

vi. 16. Judicibus Jezreel, 1 Reg. xxi. 15. 'lT'orrentibus Belial, Psae/. xviii. 4.

Plaga Peor, Num. xxv. 5. Valle Achor, Jos. vii. 26. Sanguinis aut seminis inquinamento, (Lev. xvin.

25. Invasione hostium, Num. xxxv. 33.] Bello Civili, Eo, ut tollantur boni e Magistratu, insurgantmahn et subdoli

in magistratum.

Scripture echoes

  1. ↩Acts.12.22 — The crowd kept shouting, "The voice of a god, and not of a man!"
  2. ↩Acts.12.22 — The crowd kept shouting, "The voice of a god, and not of a man!"
  3. ↩2Sam.6.16 — And it happened, when the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, that Michal daughter of Saul looked out through the window and saw King David leaping and whirling before the LORD, and she despised him in her heart.
  4. ↩2Sam.6.16 — And it happened, when the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, that Michal daughter of Saul looked out through the window and saw King David leaping and whirling before the LORD, and she despised him in her heart.
  5. ↩1Sam.2.12-1Sam.2.17 — Now the sons of Eli were worthless men; they did not know the LORD. 1Sam.2.13 — And the custom of the priests with the people was this: when any man offered a sacrifice, the priest's servant would come while the meat was boiling, with a three-pronged fork in his hand. 1Sam.2.14 — and he would strike it into the basin, or into the kettle, or into the cauldron, or into the pot; all that the fork would bring up, the priest would take for himself. Thus they did to all Israel who came there at Shiloh. 1Sam.2.15 — Even before the fat was burned, the priest's servant would come and say to the man who was sacrificing, "Give meat for the priest to roast, for he will not take boiled meat from you, but only raw." 1Sam.2.16 — And the man said to him, "Let them burn the fat today, and take for yourself whatever your soul desires." But he said to him, "No, you must give it now; and if not, I will take it by force." 1Sam.2.17 — And the sin of the young men was very great before the LORD, for the men treated the offering of the LORD with contempt.
  6. ↩Acts.8.18 — Now when Simon saw that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles' hands, he offered them money,
  7. ↩2Pet.3.16 — As also in all his letters, speaking in them concerning these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable twist, as also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.
  8. ↩Isa.19.11 — Surely the princes of Zoan are fools; the counselors of Pharaoh give senseless advice. How can you say to Pharaoh, "I am a son of the wise, a son of ancient kings"?
  9. ↩Mic.6.16 — The statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and you walk in their counsel, so that I may make you a desolation and her inhabitants a hissing; and the reproach of my people you shall bear.
  10. ↩Num.35.33 — So you shall not defile the land in which you live, for blood defiles the land, and no atonement can be made for the land, for the blood shed in it, except by the blood of the one who shed it.

Notes

  1. 1 ↩Normalized Hseresibus → Haeresibus (heresies) and publieis → publicis (public); both look like OCR faults in the supplied reading.
  2. 2 ↩Adiaphoria keeps the technical sense of moral indifference / treating a commanded matter as indifferent; in Saul's story (1 Sam 15) it points to half-hearted obedience rather than Stoic adiaphora as a system.
  3. 3 ↩Latin fuscina is the three-pronged priestly fleshhook (cf. Vulgate fuscinula) used when Hophni abused the sacrificial portions.
  4. 4 ↩Athal = Athaliah (Athalia). Direptio here names her violent seizure and destruction around the throne, not mere petty theft.
  5. 5 ↩Source reads `(1.]`; treated as a list marker `(1.)` with a likely OCR/print corruption of the closing parenthesis.
  6. 6 ↩`Juwdic.` read as `Judic.` (Judges); `Miche` is Micah of Judges 17.
  7. 7 ↩`Jud` is abbreviated; rendered as Judas, paired with Simon under an Acts citation (likely Simon Magus with Judas as a type of corrupt discipleship).
  8. 8 ↩Republica read as ablative of place with prior 'in' (in the commonwealth/state). Roboam rendered Rehoboam; Gallione as Gallio; Achitophelis as Ahithophel.
  9. 9 ↩Consiliaris almost certainly Consiliariis (abl./dat. pl.). Taneos = Tanis/Zoan (Vulgate). inconsultis = without sound counsel / unadvised. 'se.' taken as truncated Isa./Is. before xix. 11.
  10. 10 ↩Mich. continues into next section as Mic. 6:16 (neighbor has vi. 16).
  11. 11 ↩Normalized reading takes corrupt "'lT'orrentibus Belial, Psae/." as "Torrentibus Belial, Psal." (torrents of Belial, Psalm).
  12. 12 ↩Source reads 'xvin.'; treated as corrupt Roman numeral, most likely 'xviii.' (18), especially given the following section's '25.' and Leviticus 18:25 on the land's defilement.
  13. 13 ↩Source reads insurgantmahn (likely corrupt/OCR-run-together). Translated as insurgant mali (‘the wicked rise up’), parallel to boni and paired with subdoli; next section continues in magistratum.
  14. 14 ↩Fragment completes the prior clause (PrecesPriv.1.101.7.s5): crafty/underhanded men rise up in magistratum. magistratus = public office / civil authority; rendered 'magistracy' to match e Magistratu in the neighboring sentence.

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