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Preces Quotidianae

A Cry for Mercy

The prayer opens with a plea for God not to destroy, setting a tone of urgent entreaty.

A prayer of entreaty.1 Do not destroy.2

Calling on the High and Holy

The prayer invokes God from his heavenly throne and cites Scripture to ground the appeal.

Attend, Lord our God, from your lofty dwelling place, and from the throne of the glory of your kingdom.✦3 63.4 15.5 You who dwell on high and look upon the lowly—Psalm 112.✦ 5.6

Plea for Deliverance from Evil

The prayer directly asks God not to destroy but to deliver from evil.

Listen, Lord, and do not destroy us.7 Rather, deliver us from evil.

Deliverance from Present Distress

The prayer asks for deliverance from every evil and misfortune, recalling God's past faithfulness.

From every evil and misfortune, deliver us.8 As you delivered our fathers in earlier ages, deliver us.910 By whatever is sweet or dear to you, deliver us. In all our distress, deliver us.

Deliverance from the Judgment to Come

The prayer seeks deliverance from eschatological terrors and the fate of the condemned, citing Scripture.

From the evils of the age to come; from your wrath—but still more from your not being angry; from eternal damnation; from all the terrors of the age to come; from the stern face of the Judge—Rev.✦1112 6. 16. From being set on the left, Matt.✦13 25.14 33. From hearing that horrible and terrifying voice, “Depart from Me.”15 Verse 41. From being cast into the outer darkness, Matt.✦16 8.✦17 12. From eternal chains in the darkness, Jude.18 6.✦

Read the original Latin

DEPRECATIO. Ne perdas.

IwTENDE, Domine, Deus noster, ex sublimi habitaculo Tuo, et de throno gloriz regni Tui. lxiii. 15.] Qui alta habitas, et humilia respicis, Psal cxii. 5.

Intende, et ne disperdas, Domine. Quin libera nos a malo.

Ab omni malo et imfortunio Libera nos. Sicut prioribus ssculis Patres nostros, Libera nos. Per quodcunque Tibi dulce aut charum, Libera nos. In omni angustia nostra, Libera nos. A malis futuri seculi, ab ira Tua, sed magis A 'Tuo non irasci, Ab seterna damnatione, A terroribus omnibus seculi venturi, A vultu Judicis tristi, Apoc. vi. 16. A collocatione a simistris, Maff.

xxv. 33. Ab auditione vocis horrendz et tremendsze, Discedite a Me. Vers. 41. Ab ejectione in tenebras exteriores, Maff. vin. 12.

A vinculis zeternis sub caligine, Jwd. 6.

Scripture echoes

  1. ↩Isa.63.15 — Look down from heaven and see, from your holy and glorious dwelling. Where are your zeal and your might? The stirring of your inner parts and your compassions toward me have held themselves back.
  2. ↩Ps.113.5-Ps.113.6 — Who is like the LORD our God, who is seated on high, Ps.113.6 — who humbles himself to look upon the heavens and the earth
  3. ↩Rev.6.16 — And they say to the mountains and to the rocks, "Fall on us, and hide us from the face of the one seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb.
  4. ↩Matt.25.33 — And he will place the sheep at his right hand, but the goats at his left.
  5. ↩Matt.8.12 — But the sons of the kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
  6. ↩Matt.8.12 — But the sons of the kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
  7. ↩Matt.8.12 — But the sons of the kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Notes

  1. 1 ↩Latin heading DEPRECATIO names a deprecatory petition (prayer pleading against harm or judgment). Rendered as a plain modern heading rather than the technical liturgical label 'Deprecation.'
  2. 2 ↩Ne perdas is a bare negative jussive (do not destroy / do not cast away / do not let perish). Object is not supplied in this fragment; neighboring section continues the address to God.
  3. 3 ↩Source IwTENDE read as Intende (imperative of intendere, 'give heed/attend'); gloriz read as gloriae (genitive with throno).
  4. 4 ↩Roman numeral citation marker (lxiii.), almost certainly chapter 63 of a biblical book (likely Isaiah with following verse 15).
  5. 5 ↩Verse marker 15.] with trailing bracket; treated as verse 15 completing the preceding chapter citation.
  6. 6 ↩Bare verse number 5., likely completing the Psalm 112 citation (Vulgate Ps 112:5).
  7. 7 ↩Latin has no explicit object for disperdas; 'us' is supplied from the prayer’s surrounding petitions (libera nos).
  8. 8 ↩Source reads imfortunio; taken as infortunio (misfortune).
  9. 9 ↩Source ssculis read as saeculis (ages).
  10. 10 ↩Latin is elliptical (Sicut... Patres nostros); the comparison implies God's past deliverance of the fathers, parallel to Libera nos.
  11. 11 ↩Corrected seterna → aeterna; seculi → saeculi; stray apostrophe before Tuo ignored as print/OCR artifact.
  12. 12 ↩A Tuo non irasci is syntactically awkward. Rendered as a parallel 'from' petition: from your not being angry (possibly abandonment contrasted with chastening wrath). Could also be corrupt; needs witness check.
  13. 13 ↩simistris read as sinistris (left); Maff. as Matt. (Matthew).
  14. 14 ↩Citation fragment continuing the previous section’s Matt. reference: Latin xxv. is chapter 25 (Matthew 25:33 with s2).
  15. 15 ↩Normalized OCR forms horrendz → horrendæ and tremendsze → tremendæ (feminine genitives with vocis).
  16. 16 ↩Maff. is treated as Matt. (Matthew), matching the same abbreviation pattern in the previous section.
  17. 17 ↩Latin vin. is taken as OCR for viii. (chapter 8), yielding Matthew 8:12 with the following verse number; less likely alternatives (e.g. xxii.) do not fit the surface as well.
  18. 18 ↩Source reading corrected for sense: zeternis → aeternis; Jwd. → Jud. (Jude). Matches the litany’s citation pattern and Jude 6 Vulgate (vinculis aeternis sub caligine).

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