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Preces Quotidianae

The Insults and Scourging

The believer meditates on the mockery, beating, and scourging of Christ before his condemnation.

16. To be spit upon in the face.1 To be struck on the head with a reed.2 To be stripped of the purple. VI.3 19. To be bound to a pillar in the Praetorium.✦4 To be beaten with rods.✦5 To be scourged.✦6

Demanded, Condemned, and Carrying the Cross

The believer reflects on Christ's acceptance of the baptism of blood, the clamor for his crucifixion, his condemnation, and his journey carrying the cross.

To be baptized with the baptism of blood. To endure it.7 To be demanded for the cross with shouts.✦ To be shown as a grim spectacle: Behold the man!✦8 27. To be shouted for again.✦ To be condemned to the cross.✦ 29. To be loaded with the Cross.✦ To be led to the place of execution. To sink under the Cross.9

Stripped and Stretched on the Cross

The believer contemplates Christ being given myrrh, stripped naked, and stretched out on the cross.

32. To be given myrrh to drink,✦ 33. To be stripped naked, 34.✦ To be stretched out on the cross. Pain.10

Pierced and Mocked on the Cross

The believer meditates on the nailing of Christ's hands and feet, his placement among thieves, and the mockery from passersby and the thieves.

35. To be pierced with nails, 36. Hands and feet to be pierced through, 37. To be set in the middle of thieves, 38. To be counted with the wicked, 39. To be mocked by those who pass by, 40.11 To be blasphemed by the thieves themselves on Golgotha. VIII. 1.12

The Cry of Dereliction and the Final Thirst

The believer contemplates Christ's cry of abandonment, the mockery during his thirst, the offering of vinegar, and his final bowing of the head.

To be forsaken by God, 2. To be mocked while crying out to God, (Verse 43. 9. To thirst,✦ 4. To be given vinegar to drink,✦ 5. To bow his head,✦

Read the original Latin

16. Conspui in facie, ( 17. Caput arundine percuti, ( 18. Purpura exui, VI. 19. Ad columnam ligari in Pretorio, 20. Virgis οὐαὶ, 21. Flagellari, 22.

Baptismo sanguinis baptizari, E. 2: perpeti, 95. Clamore ad crucem postulari, ( 26. Tanquam triste spectaculum ostendi, EccE Howo! 27. Clamore denuo efflagitari, 28. Ad crucem damnari, VII. 29.

Cruce onerari, 30. Ad locum supplicii duci, ( 31. Sub eruee succumbere,

32. Myrrha potari,

33. Nudari, 34. In cruce extendi, Dolor.

35. Clavis configi, 36. Manus et pedes fodi, 37. In medio latronum statui, 38. Cum sceleratis deputari, 39. A pretereuntibus illudi, 40. A latronibus ipsis blasphemari in Golgotha. VIIL 1.

A Deo derelinqui,

2. Deum inclamans irrideri, (Vers. 43.

9. Sitire,

4. Aceto potari,

5. Caput inclinare,

Scripture echoes

  1. ↩John.18.28 — Then they led Jesus from Caiaphas to the Praetorium. It was early morning, and they themselves did not enter the Praetorium, so that they would not be defiled but might eat the Passover.
  2. ↩John.19.1 — Then Pilate therefore took Jesus and had him flogged.
  3. ↩John.19.1 — Then Pilate therefore took Jesus and had him flogged.
  4. ↩John.19.6 — So when the chief priests and the officers saw him, they shouted, saying, "Crucify! Crucify!" Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves and crucify him, for I find no basis for a charge against him."
  5. ↩John.19.5 — So Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, and Pilate said to them, "Behold, the man."
  6. ↩John.19.6 — So when the chief priests and the officers saw him, they shouted, saying, "Crucify! Crucify!" Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves and crucify him, for I find no basis for a charge against him."
  7. ↩John.19.16 — So then they took him away to be crucified. So they took Jesus.
  8. ↩John.19.17;Matt.27.32;Mark.15.21;Luke.23.26 — Carrying his own cross, he went out to the place called the Place of a Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha. Matt.27.32 — As they were going out, they found a man from Cyrene, named Simon; they compelled this man to carry his cross. Mark.15.21 — They compel a certain man, Simon of Cyrene, who was coming from the country—the father of Alexander and Rufus—to take up his cross. Luke.23.26 — And as they led him away, they seized Simon, a Cyrenian, who was coming in from the country, and laid the cross on him to carry it behind Jesus.
  9. ↩Mark.15.23;Matt.27.34 — They offered him wine mixed with myrrh, but he did not take it. Matt.27.34 — They gave him wine to drink mixed with gall; and when he tasted it, he was not willing to drink.
  10. ↩Matt.27.28;John.19.23-John.19.24 — And they stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him. John.19.23 — So when the soldiers crucified Jesus, they took his garments and made four parts, one part for each soldier, and also the tunic. Now the tunic was seamless, woven from the top throughout. John.19.24 — So they said to one another, 'Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it, to see whose it shall be' — that the Scripture might be fulfilled that says, 'They divided my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots.' So the soldiers did these things.
  11. ↩John.19.28;Ps.69.21 — After this, Jesus, knowing that all things were now accomplished, said, in order that the Scripture might be fulfilled, 'I thirst.' Ps.69.21 — Reproach has broken my heart, and I am sick with grief; I looked for sympathy, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found no one.
  12. ↩John.19.29-John.19.30 — A jar full of sour wine was standing there; so they filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on hyssop, and held it to his mouth. John.19.30 — When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, 'It is finished,' and bowing his head he gave up his spirit.
  13. ↩John.19.30 — When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, 'It is finished,' and bowing his head he gave up his spirit.

Notes

  1. 1 ↩Trailing apparatus '( 17.' treated as mis-segmented item numbering, not part of the prayer phrase.
  2. 2 ↩Trailing apparatus '( 18.' treated as mis-segmented item numbering, not part of the prayer phrase.
  3. 3 ↩VI. is kept as a structural section marker in the Passion outline (parallel to VII. in the following section), not as prose.
  4. 4 ↩Trailing '20.' treated as mis-segmented item numbering, not part of the prayer phrase.
  5. 5 ↩Source reads 'Virgis οὐαὶ'; Greek οὐαὶ ('woe') is almost certainly corrupt here. Rendered from the clear Latin Virgis plus the Passion-list pattern of passive sufferings as 'beaten with rods' (cf. likely intended caedi/verberari).
  6. 6 ↩Trailing '22.' treated as mis-segmented item numbering, not part of the prayer phrase.
  7. 7 ↩Source reads '2: perpeti, 95.' The only clear Latin content is the infinitive perpeti ('to endure/suffer through'); the numerals look like reference or OCR debris in an otherwise infinitive Passion list.
  8. 8 ↩Normalized 'EccE Howo!' as the Passion acclamation Ecce Homo ('Behold the man!'), an obvious OCR corruption.
  9. 9 ↩Source reading 'Sub eruee succumbere' is almost certainly corrupt for 'Sub cruce succumbere' (to sink/fall under the cross), given the Passion sequence and neighboring items.
  10. 10 ↩Capitalized Dolor after the comma may be a structural refrain/heading (Pain) closing this Passion unit rather than a grammatical complement of extendi; rendered as a separate gravely solemn word.
  11. 11 ↩Source has pretereuntibus (classical praetereuntibus); rendered as 'those who pass by.'
  12. 12 ↩Source reading VIIL is almost certainly a corruption of Roman numeral VIII (section break); next section continues the Passion litany with item 1.

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