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Preces Quotidianae

Loftiness

Acknowledging that God's greatness transcends all human height.

High-mindedness.1 For there is another who is higher than the high.

Eternity

Invoking the eternal God as the one who exists beyond time.

Eternity.2 Call upon the name of the eternal God.✦3 21. 88.4

Omnipresence

Affirming that God fills heaven and earth with His presence.

Omnipresence. Do I not fill heaven and earth?✦5 the Lord says.✦

Omniscience

Meditating on God's perfect knowledge of all things, including the human heart.

Omniscience. Where can I go from Your Spirit, and where can I flee from Your face? Ps. 139.6 7. If I ascend into heaven, You are there; if I go down to hell, You are present; and so on.7 You know all things, Jn. 21. 17. For you alone know the heart of every human being,8

Omnipotence

Proclaiming that nothing is impossible for God, who is Almighty.

Omnipotence. Nothing is impossible with God.✦9 Luke✦10 111 37✦12 I am God Almighty.✦

Divine Wisdom

Marveling at the depth and unsearchable nature of God's wisdom and judgments.

The depth of Wisdom.✦ Oh, the depth of the riches of God's knowledge and wisdom!✦13 How incomprehensible are his judgments, and unsearchable!✦14 His ways?✦15

Unshaken Truth

Celebrating the eternal and unshaken truth of the Lord.

Unshaken truth.✦ The truth of the Lord remains forever.16 Ps. 116.17 2.

Read the original Latin

Celsitudinem.

Quia excelso excelsior est alius.

ZEternitatem.

Invoca nomen Dei terni Gen. xxi. 88.

Omnipresentiam. Nunquid non colum et terram impleo ?

dicit Dominus.

Omniscientiam. Quo ibo a Spiritu Tuo, et quo a facie Tua fugiam. Ps. exxxix. 7. Si ascendero in colum, Tu 1llic ; Si descendero ad infernum, ades ; etc. Tu omnia nosti, Jo. xxi.

17.

Quia ΤῸ nosti solus cor omnium filiorum hominum,

Omnipotentiam.

Non est impossibile apud Deum omne verbum. uc. i. 97.

Ego Deus omnipotens.

Altitudinem Sapientie. O altitudo divitiarum scientie ct sapientie Dei! quam incomprehensibilia sunt judicia Ejus, et investigabiles

vie Ejus?

Inconcussam veritatem.

Veritas Domini manet in szternum. Psal. exvi. 2.

Scripture echoes

  1. ↩Gen.21.33 — And he planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and he called there on the name of the LORD, the Everlasting God.
  2. ↩Jer.23.24 — Can a person hide in secret places so that I cannot see them? declares the LORD. Do I not fill heaven and earth? declares the LORD.
  3. ↩Jer.23.24 — Can a person hide in secret places so that I cannot see them? declares the LORD. Do I not fill heaven and earth? declares the LORD.
  4. ↩Luke.1.37 — For nothing will be impossible with God.
  5. ↩Luke.1.37 — For nothing will be impossible with God.
  6. ↩Luke.1.37 — For nothing will be impossible with God.
  7. ↩Gen.17.1 — When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, 'I am God Almighty; walk before me and be blameless.'
  8. ↩Rom.11.33 — Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and how inscrutable his ways!
  9. ↩Rom.11.33 — Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and how inscrutable his ways!
  10. ↩Rom.11.33 — Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and how inscrutable his ways!
  11. ↩Rom.11.33 — Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and how inscrutable his ways!
  12. ↩Ps.117.2 — For great toward us is his steadfast love, and the faithfulness of the LORD is forever. Hallelujah.

Notes

  1. 1 ↩Single-word section (accusative of celsitudo). Rendered as 'Loftiness' for exalted height/majesty; neighboring sections treat divine height and One higher still. Could also be read as a heading-lemma rather than a full sentence.
  2. 2 ↩Source reads ZEternitatem.; treated as corrupt/normalized Aeternitatem (Eternity), with ZE as a likely OCR or type-error for Æ/Ae.
  3. 3 ↩Source reads 'Dei terni'. Neighboring heading 'Aeternitatem' and the Gen. 21 citation make Gen. 21:33's 'Dei aeterni' the most plausible intended reading ('invocavit... nomen Domini Dei aeterni'); 'terni' looks like 'aeterni' with 'ae' lost. Translated on that corrected sense.
  4. 4 ↩Bare numeral '88.' does not fit Genesis 21 (34 verses). It may be a corrupt verse number (e.g. 33), a second citation, or a non-biblical locator; left as printed.
  5. 5 ↩Source reads colum; translated as the almost certain intended caelum (heaven), matching the standard Vulgate wording of this oracle.
  6. 6 ↩Source has Vulgate-style Roman numeral exxxix (139). Hebrew/Protestant numbering is Psalm 139; Vulgate numbering for the same psalm is 138.
  7. 7 ↩Normalized reading corrects corrupt print forms: colum → caelum; 1llic → illic. Rendered as the clear Psalm 139:8 sense.
  8. 8 ↩Source has Greek ΤῸ before nosti, which is not viable Latin; translated as the standard prayer/biblical reading Quia tu nosti solus cor omnium filiorum hominum (cf. 1 Kgs 8:39 / 2 Chr 6:30).
  9. 9 ↩Latin omne verbum is the Vulgate calque (word/thing); English nothing captures the biblical idiom without stiff literalism.
  10. 10 ↩Source fragment uc. is almost certainly a broken remnant of Luc. (Lucas/Luke), the usual citation for the preceding sentence.
  11. 11 ↩Isolated i. is treated as the chapter numeral in a Luc. i. 37 citation, not as free Latin prose.
  12. 12 ↩Printed/source 97. is taken as a likely misreading of 37 (Luke 1:37), matching the Latin of s1; not rendered as ninety-seven.
  13. 13 ↩Source reads 'ct' between scientie and sapientie; translated as the obvious 'et' (and).
  14. 14 ↩Sentence breaks mid-clause before the noun modified by investigabiles; neighboring next section supplies vie Ejus? (his ways?). Translation stops at the supplied Latin.
  15. 15 ↩vie is read as viae (ways/paths), completing the preceding clause et investigabiles and the Romans 11:33 cadence.
  16. 16 ↩Source reads 'szternum'; translated as intended 'aeternum' (forever).
  17. 17 ↩Source reads 'exvi.'; taken as OCR/type corruption of Roman 'cxvi' (116), matching Vulgate Psalm 116 for the quoted line.

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