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Preces Quotidianae

The Quest for Eternal Life

The chapter opens with a direct question about receiving eternal life, answered with a call to keep the commandments.

. What must I do so that I may receive eternal life12 so that I can receive it?3 . Follow the commandments.4

The Call to Repentance

Echoing Peter's Pentecost sermon, the text calls for repentance and baptism, though the ending is obscured by fragmentary marginalia.

. What✦ should we do?✦ . Repent, and let each of you be baptized—✦5 of you.✦ 4í. d. 937, 88.

The Way of Salvation

The same salvific question is answered with faith in Christ, and reinforced by allusions to Luke 3 and Acts, alongside citation marks.

. What must I do to be saved? . Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ.6 . So what should we do?✦ Luke7 28 10. 12. 14.

Generosity and Integrity

Drawing on Luke 3, the text instructs sharing clothing and food, honesty in tax collection, and contentment for soldiers.

tunics—let him give not9 Whoever has two10 food for the one who has it.11 to the publicans.12 Collect only what is appointed to you.✦13 . Don't intimidate anyone, and don't bring false charges.✦ To the soldiers.✦14 Be content with your pay.✦

The Devout Life

A litany of virtues and disciplines—faith, mercy, fasting, prayer, sacrifice—concludes the chapter with an offering.

Knowledge and Faith, Justice, Mercy, Fear, Hope, Humility, Consolation, Penance, Gratitude, Fasting, Alms, Prayer,15 Hymns, Patience, Obedience, that16 Sacrifice. Oblation.17

Read the original Latin

. QuiD faciam, ut vitam seternam

percipam?

. Observa pr:cepta. . Quid. faciemus ? . Pemitentiam agite, et baptizetur unusquisque ves-

irum. 4cí. d. 937, 88.

. Quid me oportet facere, ut salvus fiam? . Crede Dominum Jesum Christum. . Quid ergo faciemus? | Luc. ii.

10. 12. 14.

ς tunicas det non ᾿ . Qui habet duas 1 4 | Tubis.

escas, habenti.

l Publicanis.

tutum est vobis, exigatis.

. Neminem concutiatis : neque calumniam faciatis. Mihltibus. Contenti estote stipendiis vestris. 'Scientiam et Fidem, Justiti:, Misericordiz, ad Timorem, Spem, Humilitatem, Consolationem, Poenitentiam, Gratitudinem, Jejunium, Eleemosynas, Orationem, . Hymnos, Patientiam, - Obedientiam, ut

Sacrificium. Oblationem.

Scripture echoes

  1. ↩Acts.2.37 — Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and they said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Brothers, what shall we do?"
  2. ↩Acts.2.37 — Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and they said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Brothers, what shall we do?"
  3. ↩Acts.2.38 — Then Peter said to them, ‘Repent, and let each one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.’
  4. ↩Acts.2.38 — Then Peter said to them, ‘Repent, and let each one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.’
  5. ↩Luke.3.10;Acts.2.37 — And the crowds asked him, saying, 'What then should we do?' Acts.2.37 — Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and they said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Brothers, what shall we do?"
  6. ↩Luke.3.13;Luke.3.14 — And he said to them, 'Collect no more than what is appointed for you.' Luke.3.14 — Soldiers also asked him, 'What should we do?' And he said to them, 'Do not extort money from anyone by threats or false accusation, and be content with your wages.'
  7. ↩Luke.3.14 — Soldiers also asked him, 'What should we do?' And he said to them, 'Do not extort money from anyone by threats or false accusation, and be content with your wages.'
  8. ↩Luke.3.14 — Soldiers also asked him, 'What should we do?' And he said to them, 'Do not extort money from anyone by threats or false accusation, and be content with your wages.'
  9. ↩Luke.3.14 — Soldiers also asked him, 'What should we do?' And he said to them, 'Do not extort money from anyone by threats or false accusation, and be content with your wages.'

Notes

  1. 1 ↩Normalized reading takes 'seternam' as 'aeternam' (eternal). 'QuiD' read as 'Quid'.
  2. 2 ↩Clause is incomplete in this section; the governing verb appears in the next section as 'percipam?' Sense rendered from the combined question 'Quid faciam, ut vitam aeternam percipam?'
  3. 3 ↩Latin surface is percipam; intended reading is almost certainly subjunctive percipiam (from percipio, ‘receive/obtain’), completing the prior clause ut vitam aeternam.
  4. 4 ↩Normalized corrupt 'pr:cepta' as 'praecepta' (precepts/commands).
  5. 5 ↩Restored 'Pemitentiam' as 'Paenitentiam'; trailing 'ves-' is a line-break fragment of 'vestrum', continued in the next section.
  6. 6 ↩Latin has Crede + accusative without in (Crede Dominum Jesum Christum). Rendered as the idiomatic English believe in; the usual biblical Latin is Crede in Dominum Iesum.
  7. 7 ↩Source is a citation marker (| Luc.), not continuous prose; rendered as the book name Luke.
  8. 8 ↩Source is the Roman numeral ii., almost certainly a chapter (or section) number attached to the Luke citation, not prose.
  9. 9 ↩Source is badly corrupted: leading/trailing Greek glyphs (ς, ᾿) look like OCR noise. Retained the Latin core tunicas det non; most plausible intended sense is the Lukan share-command fragment det non [habenti] (let him give to the one who does not have), with habenti delayed or split in neighboring text.
  10. 10 ↩Normalized text Qui habet duas 1 4 | Tubis. contains non-Latin debris (1 4 | Tubis), likely page/column OCR garbage. Translated only the recoverable clause Qui habet duas; Tubis is not treated as meaningful Latin here.
  11. 11 ↩Supplied Latin is only the fragment “escas, habenti.” Neighboring lines are heavily garbled and appear to break up Luke 3:11 (Vulg.: Qui habet duas tunicas, det non habenti; et qui habet escas…). Rendered the given words only; fuller intended clause is uncertain.
  12. 12 ↩Source reads 'l Publicanis.' The initial 'l' looks like a stray fragment, OCR residue, or broken word-boundary rather than a complete Latin form; translation rests on readable 'Publicanis' (dat./abl. pl. of publicanus).
  13. 13 ↩Latin reads 'tutum est vobis, exigatis.' Neighboring rubrics (Publicanis; soldiers' stipends) and the next Luke 3:14 imperative make this almost certainly a truncated/corrupt witness of Vulgate Luke 3:13: 'Nihil amplius quam quod constitutum est vobis exigatis'—with 'tutum' as the residual of 'constitutum'. Rendered as the intended tax-collector charge, not literal 'tutum' (safe).
  14. 14 ↩Source reads 'Mihltibus.'; translated as rubric Militibus ('To the soldiers'), the standard heading for Luke 3:14.
  15. 15 ↩Normalized corrupt forms Justiti: → Justitiam (Justice) and Misericordiz → Misericordiam (Mercy). Leading quote mark and trailing empty token ignored. 'ad Timorem' rendered as the virtue Fear (of God), not as a prepositional phrase of motion.
  16. 16 ↩Source ends mid-clause on purpose connective ut; next section begins Sacrificium / Oblationem, so the purpose clause is incomplete here.
  17. 17 ↩Oblationem may be rendered 'oblation' (liturgical offering) or 'offering'; kept 'Oblation' to preserve the traditional devotional sense in a prayer list.

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