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Preces Quotidianae

Confession of a Hardened Heart

The soul confesses its hardened, provoking sin before God, whose silence both indicts and invites repentance.

. But I hardened myself, Zeb.1 ni. 13. . I have provoked you, 1 Aeg.✦2 xvi 33. . And you've seen all these things, Zàren.✦ in. 59. And you kept silent. Ps.3 1. 21.

The Aggravations of Sin

A searching inventory of the circumstances that make sin more grievous: harm, scandal, quality, repetition, continuance, person, manner, motive, time, and place.

Aggravation. . Harm, 1. The measure of the sin, Scandal. 3. Quality, 9. Repetition, How often? 4. Continuation: how long? 9. Person: who? Age, condition, status, knowledge.4 6. Manner, 7. Motivating cause, 8.5 Time, 9. Place.

An Index of Sins

A terse catalogue recalls particular failings—folly, ingratitude, hardness, and contempt—as matter for confession.

1. Folly, 3. Ingratitude, 9. Hardness, 1.6 Contempt.

Sin's Binding Cords

Sin is pictured as binding cords and ropes, while the call to lay aside superfluities and receive the implanted word closes the catalogue.

Kinds of sin. Cords, ropes.✦7 28. v. 18. Necessities, Excesses. James8 1.✦ 21.

From Age to Age

A final fragment voices an eternal horizon to the day's devotions.

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Read the original Latin

. Sed obdurui, Zeb. ni. 13. . Te irritavi, 1 Aeg. xvi 33.

. Et hzc omnia vidisti, | ZÀren. in. 59.

Et tacuisti. Psa/. 1. 21.

AGGRAVATIO. . Noxa, 1. Peccati mensura, Scandalum. 3. Qualitas, 9. Iteratio, Quoties ? 4.

Continuatio, Quamdiu ? 9. Persona, Quis ? ZEtas, Conditio, Status, Cognitio. 6. Modus, 7. Causa motiva, 8. Tempus, 9.

Locus.

1. Stultitia, 3. Ingratitudo, 9. Dunitia, 1. Contemptus.

Peccati Species. Funiculi, Rudentes. 28. v. 18. Necessitates,

Superfluitates. Jac. 1. 21.

. Ex setate

Scripture echoes

  1. ↩1Kgs.16.33 — Ahab made the Asherah, and Ahab did more to provoke the LORD, the God of Israel, than all the kings of Israel who were before him.
  2. ↩Ps.50.21 — These things you did, and I kept silent; you thought that I would be just like you. But I will rebuke you and set the charge before your eyes.
  3. ↩Isa.5.18 — Woe to those who drag iniquity with cords of deceit, and with cart ropes drag sin—
  4. ↩Jas.1.21 — Therefore, having put away all filthiness and the abundance of evil, receive with meekness the implanted word that is able to save your souls.

Notes

  1. 1 ↩obdurui taken as 1sg perfect of obduresco/obduro: 'I became hard' / 'I hardened myself.' Zeb. is almost certainly a truncated biblical book tag, not a Latin word to translate.
  2. 2 ↩Te irritavi read as direct confession to God: 'I have provoked you.' '1 Aeg.' is almost certainly a corrupt book abbreviation (plausibly 1 Reg./1 Kings given the common Vulgate wording of 1 Reg. 16:33), not ordinary Latin prose.
  3. 3 ↩Source 'Psa/.' treated as the common Psalm citation abbreviation (Psa./Ps.); slash is likely OCR noise for a period.
  4. 4 ↩Source prints 'ZEtas'; most plausible intended reading is Ætas/Aetas ('age'), a standard confessional circumstance beside condition, status, and knowledge.
  5. 5 ↩Causa motiva is the scholastic moral-theology term for the motive that moves the act; rendered as 'motivating cause' to keep that technical sense rather than the looser everyday word 'motive' alone.
  6. 6 ↩Latin surface 'Dunitia' is not standard; most plausible intended form is 'Duritia' (hardness, hard-heartedness). Rendered on that corrected reading.
  7. 7 ↩Funiculi/rudentes are concrete rope-imagery (cords and heavier cables/ship-ropes), likely a sin-binding image in the private-devotion catalog rather than a free paraphrase into 'bonds' alone.
  8. 8 ↩Jac. is the standard abbreviation for Jacobus (the Epistle of James).
  9. 9 ↩Source sentence is only a bare period with no lexical content; no sense can be recovered without inventing text.
  10. 10 ↩Latin 'Ex setate' is not a valid classical/medieval form as printed. Most plausible correction is 'Ex aetate' (from/by age), treating initial s as a misreading of ae/a. Less likely: 'Ex satietate' (from satiety) or a garbled 'Excessitate' (by excess), which would fit the preceding Superfluitates head but requires heavier rewriting. Rendering assumes 'Ex aetate'.

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