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Preces Quotidianae

Preces Quotidianae

Heaven and earth will pass away,1 But my words won't pass away. Exact justice.2 His justice endures forever. Fountain, Ocean, and Abyss of mercy,3 Deep calls to deep. Gentle: to pass over, to overlook.4 I beg you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ. I will not destroy it for the sake of ten.5 You pass over sin. God, overlooking the times of ignorance.✦6 cf.✦7 xvii.✦ 30.✦ Patient and long-suffering.✦ Do you despise the riches of patience and long-suffering?✦8 Rom.9 2. 4. Merciful. He is merciful and gracious toward their sins, so he wouldn't destroy them. Ps. 78.10 38. Willingly punishing.11 What shall I do with you, Ephraim? What shall I do with you, Judah?✦12 You delivered them many times, and for many years you passed over them: Neh.✦ 9. 28. And in your many mercies,✦13 you did not utterly destroy them. Verse 31.

Read the original Latin

Colum et terra transibunt,

Verba autem Mea non preteribunt.

Exquisitam justitiam.

Justitia Ejus manet in seculum.

Fontem, Oceanum, Abyssum misericordie,

Abyssus abyssum invocat.

Mitis, preterire, dissimulare. Obsecro vos per mansuetudinem et modestiam Christi. Non delebo propter decem. Transis peccatum.

Tempora ignorantiz dissimulans Deus. 4cf. xvii. 30.

Tolerans, Longanimis.

Àn divitias patientiz et longanimitatis contemnis? ftom. ii. 4.

Misericors. Ipse misericors et propitius peccatis eorum, ut non disperderet eos. Psal. lxxviu. 38.

lilibenter puniens. Quid faciam tibi, Ephraim ὃ quid faciam tibi, Juda? Liberasti eos multis temporibus, et pertransisti super eos annos multos: Neh. ix. 28. Et im misericordiis Tuis plurimis,

non fecisti eos in consumptionem, Vers. 31.

Scripture echoes

  1. ↩Acts.17.30 — And so, having overlooked the times of ignorance, God now commands all people everywhere to repent.
  2. ↩Acts.17.30 — And so, having overlooked the times of ignorance, God now commands all people everywhere to repent.
  3. ↩Acts.17.30 — And so, having overlooked the times of ignorance, God now commands all people everywhere to repent.
  4. ↩Acts.17.30 — And so, having overlooked the times of ignorance, God now commands all people everywhere to repent.
  5. ↩Acts.17.30;Rom.2.4 — And so, having overlooked the times of ignorance, God now commands all people everywhere to repent. Rom.2.4 — Or do you despise the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?
  6. ↩Rom.2.4;Rom.2.4 — Or do you despise the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance? Rom.2.4 — Or do you despise the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?
  7. ↩Hos.6.4 — What shall I do with you, Ephraim? What shall I do with you, Judah? Your loyalty is like a morning cloud, like the dew that goes away early.
  8. ↩Neh.9.28;Neh.9.30 — But when they had rest, they again did evil before you, and you abandoned them into the hand of their enemies, who ruled over them. Yet when they turned back and cried out to you, you heard from heaven and delivered them many times, according to your great compassion. Neh.9.30 — You extended over them many years, and you testified against them by your Spirit through your prophets; yet they would not listen, and so you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
  9. ↩Neh.9.31 — But in your great mercy you did not make an end of them, and you did not forsake them; for you are a God gracious and merciful.

Notes

  1. 1 ↩Source reads Colum; almost certainly a corruption of Caelum (heaven), given the Gospel parallel and the following sentence Verba autem Mea non preteribunt.
  2. 2 ↩exquisitam can mean carefully sought out, choice, or exact/strict; rendered as 'exact' for the juridical-devotional sense of refined, precise justice, which fits the neighboring 'Justitia Ejus' phrase.
  3. 3 ↩misericordie is treated as medieval orthography for misericordiae (genitive singular: 'of mercy'). Fontem / Oceanum / Abyssum are rendered as stacked titles for the depth and immensity of divine mercy, not as three separate objects.
  4. 4 ↩Bare list (adjective + two infinitives) without a finite verb; read as a thematic head on God's mild forbearance in light of neighboring 'dissimulans Deus' and the following scriptural scraps. 'preterire' / 'dissimulare' may be catchwords rather than a full clause.
  5. 5 ↩'propter decem' is elliptical; object of destruction is understood from the Genesis bargaining scene (the city), so 'it' is supplied for sense.
  6. 6 ↩Source reads 'ignorantiz'; translated as 'ignorantiae' (times of ignorance), the only plausible Latin for this phrase.
  7. 7 ↩Source token '4cf.' looks like bibliographic debris (likely 'cf.' or a mangled book abbreviation such as 'Act.'), not a full Latin clause.
  8. 8 ↩Source reads 'Àn divitias patientiz et longanimitatis contemnis?'; most plausible intended Latin is 'An divitias patientiae et longanimitatis contemnis?' (interrogative An; patientiae for corrupt patientiz). Neighboring lemma titles Tolerans/Longanimis support this sense; full Vulgate Rom. 2:4 also has 'bonitatis eius', which is not in the supplied line.
  9. 9 ↩Source 'ftom.' read as citation label 'Rom.' (Romans), parallel to next section's 'Psal.'
  10. 10 ↩Source reads 'lxxviu.'; almost certainly a corrupted Roman numeral for lxxviii (78) or possibly Vulgate lxxvii (77). Rendered as 78 to match the quoted wording of Ps 78:38 / Vulgate 77:38.
  11. 11 ↩Source reads lilibenter; translated as libenter (willingly/readily).
  12. 12 ↩Source inserts Greek ὃ between the parallel clauses; treated as corrupted punctuation/separator, not as a word to translate.
  13. 13 ↩Source reads im; translated as in (in).

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