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Preces Quotidianae

Human Unbelief and Divine Faithfulness

The first section opens with a declaration that human unbelief cannot nullify God's faithfulness, citing Romans 3:3 and 2 Timothy 2:13, followed by marginal citation notes.

Human unbelief will not cancel out His faithfulness.✦1 Rom.2 3:3.✦3 But if we don't believe, He remains faithful—himself✦4 He cannot deny Himself.✦5 32 77m.6 i.7 13.✦8

Remembering God's Faithfulness in History

A new section titled 'The practice of God' recalls how the fathers hoped in God and were delivered, then petitions God to remember His ancient mercies, citing Psalms 22, 25, 89, and Sirach 2:11.

[7.] The practice of God.9 In You our fathers put their hope; they hoped, and You delivered them.✦ Remember Your compassions, Lord, and Your mercies, which have been from of old.✦10 Where are Your ancient mercies, Lord?11 Look, children, at the nations of men, and know that no one has hoped in the Lord and been put to shame.12 Sir. Ecclus. n.13 11.14 For who has ever kept His commandments and been forsaken?15

Call to Faithful Obedience

A brief verse and response affirming that no one who keeps God's commandments is forsaken, followed by a liturgical label and citation.

been forsaken?16 Versicle.17 123.18 Citation.19

Our Relational Posture Before God

A heading establishes our part in relation to God, then humility is expressed through pleas not to despise His handiwork, invoking Psalm 138 and Isaiah 64, and concluding with the affirmation that God hates nothing He has made.

As for us, in our relationship with God. Do not despise the work of Your hands.20 Psalm 13721 8 We are clay, and You are our potter, and we are all the work of Your hands.✦ Isaiah✦22 64 8 You don't hate anything you have made.

Preserving the Divine Image

A section marked '(2.)' pleads for God not to blot out the image of His face in humanity, citing Genesis 1:26's account of creation in God's image and likeness.

(2.)23 Image of Your face.✦24 Don't blot it out.25 Let us make man in our image,✦ and in our own image.✦ Genesis✦ 1✦ 26✦

Read the original Latin

Cujus fidem incredulitas hominum non evacuabit. om. ni 3. Quod si non credimus, Ipse fidelis permanet, seipsum

negare non potest. 32 77m. i. 13.

(7.] Praxis Dei. In Te sperarunt patres nostri; speraverunt, et liberasti eos. Remmiscere miserationum '"Tuarum, Domine, et muisericordiarum "Tuarum quiz a seculo sunt. Ubi sunt misericordie Tuze antiquze, Domine? Respieite, fili, nationes hominum, et scitote, quia nullus speravit in Domino, et confusus est. Syr. Ecclus.]

n. 11. Quis enim permansit in mandatis Ejus, et derelictus

est? Vers. 123. ALLEGATIO.

EX PARTE NOSTRA, RELATIVE AD DEUM.

Opus manuum '"Tuarum ne despicias. Psal. exxxvii. 8. Nos lutum, et figulus noster Tu, et opera manuum Tuarum omnes nos. 118. lxiv. 8.

Nihil odisti eorum que fecisti.

(2.] Zinago vultus. Ne deleas.

Faciamus hominem ad imaginem,

et similitudinem nostram. Gen. 1. 26.

Scripture echoes

  1. ↩Rom.3.3 — For what if some were unfaithful? Does their unfaithfulness nullify the faithfulness of God?
  2. ↩Rom.3.3 — For what if some were unfaithful? Does their unfaithfulness nullify the faithfulness of God?
  3. ↩2Tim.2.13 — If we are faithless, he remains faithful, for he cannot deny himself.
  4. ↩2Tim.2.13 — If we are faithless, he remains faithful, for he cannot deny himself.
  5. ↩2Tim.2.13 — If we are faithless, he remains faithful, for he cannot deny himself.
  6. ↩Ps.22.5;Ps.23.4-Ps.23.5 — In you our fathers trusted; they trusted, and you delivered them. Ps.23.4 — Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff — they comfort me. Ps.23.5 — You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.
  7. ↩Ps.25.6;Ps.26.6 — Remember your compassions, LORD, and your covenant-loves, for they are from eternity. Ps.26.6 — I wash my hands in innocence, and I go around your altar, O LORD.
  8. ↩Isa.64.8 — But now, O LORD, you are our Father. We are the clay, and you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand.
  9. ↩Isa.64.8 — But now, O LORD, you are our Father. We are the clay, and you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand.
  10. ↩Gen.1.26 — Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
  11. ↩Gen.1.26 — Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
  12. ↩Gen.1.26 — Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
  13. ↩Gen.1.26 — Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
  14. ↩Gen.1.26 — Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
  15. ↩Gen.1.26 — Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."

Notes

  1. 1 ↩Latin fidem here almost certainly means God's faithfulness (fides Dei), as in Rom 3:3, not human 'faith in God.'
  2. 2 ↩Source reads 'om.'; most plausible intended citation is 'Rom.' (Romans), matching the Rom 3:3 sense of the preceding sentence and the following 'ni 3.'
  3. 3 ↩Source reads 'ni 3.'; most plausible intended citation is 'iii. 3' (chapter 3, verse 3), completing 'Rom. iii. 3.'
  4. 4 ↩Sentence is syntactically incomplete in this section: seipsum is the object of the next section's negare non potest (2 Tim 2:13).
  5. 5 ↩Completes the prior fragment 'seipsum' (PrecesPriv.1.157.1.s4): seipsum negare non potest. Object 'Himself' is supplied from that neighboring clause, not restated in this section's Latin.
  6. 6 ↩Source reading '32 77m.' is not continuous Latin prose; it appears to be garbled printed citation/apparatus (possibly a biblical reference marker).
  7. 7 ↩Source reading 'i.' is an isolated letter fragment, likely apparatus or OCR debris rather than a full Latin sentence.
  8. 8 ↩Source reading '13.' is almost certainly a verse/reference numeral (fitting 2 Tim. 2:13 for the preceding clause), not a Latin sentence to translate.
  9. 9 ↩Praxis Dei is taken as a heading: God's practice/working/deeds. If this is a technical title in the Preces Privatae apparatus, a specialist gloss may be preferred.
  10. 10 ↩Normalized corrupt source 'Remmiscere... muisericordiarum... quiz a seculo' to the standard liturgical/Psalm reading Reminiscere miserationum Tuarum, Domine, et misericordiarum Tuarum, quae a saeculo sunt.
  11. 11 ↩Read 'misericordie Tuze antiquze' as misericordiae Tuae antiquae (long-s / OCR z for ae).
  12. 12 ↩Read 'Respieite, fili' as Respicite, filii (plural imperative + vocative plural).
  13. 13 ↩Bare apparatus token (n.); likely a number/note label before the verse numeral, not a full prose sentence.
  14. 14 ↩Verse or item number preserved as printed apparatus, not expanded into prose.
  15. 15 ↩Sentence is incomplete in this section: the finite form is supplied by the next section's est?. Translation renders the Latin present here without inventing the missing verb.
  16. 16 ↩Completes the prior clause: 'Quis enim permansit in mandatis Ejus, et derelictus est?' — 'For who has remained in His commandments and been forsaken?'
  17. 17 ↩Liturgical rubric abbreviation Vers. for Versus/Versiculus (versicle).
  18. 18 ↩Bare numeral; likely a psalm, verse, or citation index number in the prayer-book apparatus, not a prose sentence.
  19. 19 ↩ALLEGATIO. is a formal heading for a cited authority (scriptural or legal 'allegation'); rendered as Citation for modern readability.
  20. 20 ↩Source shows garbled quotation marks before Tuarum (manuum '"Tuarum); translated as Opus manuum Tuarum ne despicias.
  21. 21 ↩Source reads exxxvii; treated as cxxxvii (137), matching the Psalm 137:8 petition just above.
  22. 22 ↩Source reads 118.; treated as a corrupted book label for Isaiah (Isai./Isa.), because the preceding sentence matches Isaiah 64:8 and the following numerals are lxiv. 8.
  23. 23 ↩Source '(2.]' appears to be a corrupted section/verse marker rather than prose; rendered as the structural label '(2.)'.
  24. 24 ↩Supplied reading 'Zinago vultus' is almost certainly corrupt. Most plausible intended reading in this creation/image sequence (cf. neighboring 'Faciamus hominem ad imaginem') is 'Imago vultus'—'image of [Your] face/countenance.' Translation follows that conjecture.
  25. 25 ↩Ne deleas is clear Latin ('do not destroy/blot out'), but the object is unstated in this fragment. Rendered with a neutral 'it' assuming the preceding image/face as object; could also be 'us' if the prayer is for persons made in that image.

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