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Preces Quotidianae

Preces Quotidianae

Do not fail Your faithfulness; do not rebuke me in anger. Psalm✦1 6. 1. Do not chasten me in fury. Psalm✦2 38. 1. Do not cast me from Your face. Do not reject me from among Your servants. Do not take Your Spirit from me. Psalm✦34 h.5 11. Do not forget forever, Psalm✦6 74. 19. Do not be angry so much, 19.7 64. 9. Do not hand me over into the hand of iniquity, Psalm8 27. 12. Do not dash them down.9 Do not delay to return. Hab.10 2. 3. Do not destroy my soul with the wicked. If for a time we endure the enemy's power by Your permission, may we by no means be swallowed up in his insatiable jaws. May the Lion be overcome by the weak sheep. Let the violent spirit be overcome by the weak flesh.11 Citation.12 Remember what my substance is (Ps.✦13 39. 47.] dust and ashes (Gen. xviii.14 27).✦ Like grass and a flower (Is.15 40). 6. Flesh and a spirit that passes away, Psalm 77.16 39. Rot and worm, Job 16.17 14. As a stranger and a pilgrim on the earth.18 Dwelling in a house of clay, Job.✦ 4. 19.✦ Few and evil days, Genesis.✦ 47. 9.✦ Today and not tomorrow, Proverbs. 27.19 1. In the morning, and not until evening, Psalm20 38. 19.

Read the original Latin

"fallas veritatem, me arguas in ira, Psal. vi. 1. me corripias in furore, Psal. xxxviii. 1. projicias a facie, Noli me reprobare a pueris Tuis, Ne auferas Spiritum Tuum, Psq/. h.

11. obliviscaris in finem, Psal. lxxiv. 19. irascaris satis, 19. lxiv. 9. tradas me in manu iniquitatis, Psal.

xxvii. 12. allidas duis. tardes reverti, ab. ii. 3. perdas cum impiis animam meam. Si potentiam hostis ad tempus Tua permissione patimur, nequaquam ejus insatiabilibus faucibus absorbeamur.

Vincatur Leo ab ove infirma,

Violens spiritus a debili carne.

ALLEGATIO.

Memorare qui mea substantia, (Psal. ]xxxix. 47.] pulvis et cinis, Gen. xviu. 27. Quod Fonum et flos, 7s. xl.

6. - Caro et spiritus vadens, Psal. lxxvim. 39. Putredo et vermis, Job. xvi. 14. Ut advena et peregrinus in terra.

Habitans domum luteam, Job. iv. 19. Dies pauci et mali, Gen. xlvii. 9. Hodie et non cras, Prov. xxvn.

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Mane et non usque ad vesperam, s. xxxviii. 19.

Scripture echoes

  1. ↩Ps.6.1 — For the director of music. With stringed instruments. On the Sheminith. A psalm of David.
  2. ↩Ps.39.1 — For the choirmaster. For Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.
  3. ↩Ps.51.13 — Do not cast me away from your presence, and do not take your Holy Spirit from me.
  4. ↩Ps.74.19 — Do not give the life of your turtledove to the wild beasts; do not forget the life of your afflicted ones forever.
  5. ↩Ps.89.48 — Remember, what is this life? For what vanity You have created all the children of man!
  6. ↩Gen.18.27 — Then Abraham answered and said, "Behold, I have now ventured to speak to the Lord, though I am but dust and ashes."
  7. ↩Job.4.19 — How much more those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before a moth!
  8. ↩Job.4.19 — How much more those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before a moth!
  9. ↩Gen.47.9 — And Jacob said to Pharaoh, 'The days of the years of my sojourning are one hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of my fathers in their sojourning.'
  10. ↩Gen.47.9 — And Jacob said to Pharaoh, 'The days of the years of my sojourning are one hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of my fathers in their sojourning.'

Notes

  1. 1 ↩Bare subjunctives fallas / arguas continue the ne-petition chain from the previous section (cf. auferas misericordiam). fallas veritatem most plausibly continues the Ps 89 faithfulness/mercy complex ('do not fail your truth/faithfulness'); me arguas in ira is the petition language of Ps 6:1.
  2. 2 ↩Bare subjunctive corripias continues the ne-petition style; wording tracks Vulgate Psalm 38:1 (ne … in furore … corripias me), with word order slightly rearranged in the source.
  3. 3 ↩pueris Tuis can mean your children or your servants; rendered servants as the more natural reprobare-from-among phrasing in petitionary Latin, but children remains possible.
  4. 4 ↩projicias a facie lacks an explicit object and ne; object me is supplied from the parallel Noli me / Ne auferas petitions and from Ps 50:13 Vulg. (ne proicias me a facie tua … spiritum … ne auferas). Psq/. appears to be a garbled Psal. abbreviation.
  5. 5 ↩Opaque residual fragment after Psq/. Expected psalm number for the Miserere Spirit petition is commonly l. / li. (Ps 50/51); h. may be corrupt type or OCR, but no silent emendation is applied.
  6. 6 ↩Bare subjunctive obliviscaris continues the negative-petition litany (Noli/Ne…) of the previous section; rendered as a negative plea, not a positive wish that God forget.
  7. 7 ↩Rendered irascaris as a negative petition in the ongoing litany. satis taken as degree (‘so much / enough’); the trailing ‘19.’ looks like a duplicated or misplaced verse numeral from the prior citation and is left as printed.
  8. 8 ↩Bare subjunctive tradas continues the negative-petition series; manu is kept as ‘hand’ (biblical idiom for power/agency), not flattened to a vague ‘grasp.’
  9. 9 ↩Source 'duis' is not standard Latin and may be corrupt or truncated; rendered as a bare negative petition parallel to neighboring subjunctives (ne implied), without a secure object for 'duis'.
  10. 10 ↩Source 'ab.' read as the Latin biblical abbreviation for Abacuc (Habakkuk); Abdias/Obadiah is impossible here because that book has only one chapter, while s5–s6 supply 'ii. 3'.
  11. 11 ↩Parallel to the previous line (Vincatur Leo ab ove infirma); the passive subjunctive vincatur is understood here, not restated. violens spiritus can mean a raging/violent spirit (often the hostile or disordered spirit); debili carne is weak flesh as the unlikely conquering agent.
  12. 12 ↩Latin ALLEGATIO is a structural heading in the prayer cycle (from allegare, to adduce/cite). In Preces Privatae it labels the scriptural authorities that follow. Rendered as 'Citation' for modern readability; traditional technical 'Allegation' is the same sense.
  13. 13 ↩Source reads 'Memorare qui mea substantia'; the familiar Vulgate wording is 'Memorare quae mea substantia' (what my substance is). 'qui' treated as likely corruption of 'quae'.
  14. 14 ↩Source 'xviu.' read as Roman numeral xviii (18), the standard chapter for Genesis 'pulvis et cinis'.
  15. 15 ↩Source 'Fonum' treated as 'foenum' (grass/hay); '7s.' treated as 'Is.' (Isaiah), matching the common 'foenum et flos' tag from Is. 40.
  16. 16 ↩Source 'lxxvim.' is almost certainly OCR/print corruption of Vulgate Psalm 'lxxvii.' (77), matching the Caro/spiritus vadens tag; rendered as 77.
  17. 17 ↩Printed Job 'xvi.' does not cleanly match the usual putredo/vermis Job verses (often 17:14 or 25:6); numeral translated as given.
  18. 18 ↩Ut taken as comparative 'as' (biblical sojourner formula), not purpose 'so that'; no finite verb follows.
  19. 19 ↩Source reads xxvn.; rendered as 27 on the most plausible correction to xxvii., matching the Proverbs chapter pattern of the preceding tag.
  20. 20 ↩Trailing 's.' is treated as the start of a Psalm citation (s. xxxviii. 19), parallel to the citation fragments in the next section; if another book abbreviation is intended, re-resolve in tx-08.

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