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Preces Quotidianae

The Shape of Sin

This pericope defines sin through omission and commission, then categorizes it by thought, word, and deed, and by its objects: God, neighbor, and self.

Not doing what one should.1 Commission, or excess, Doing what one ought not.2 . Of the heart, within, by thought; of the mouth, by word.3 Outwardly, by performing a work.4 Against God, against your neighbor, against your own body.5

The Circumstances of Sin

This pericope examines the circumstances of sin: whether voluntary or involuntary, old or recent, committed in youth or later life, and whether hidden or open.

Unwillingly, willingly.6 Old, recent.7 Of youth, Of later life: once committed, more often repeated.8 Hidden, Open sins.9

The Sources of Sin

This pericope identifies the sources of sin: concupiscence, the rhythms of night and day, the stage of mature age, and the temptations of the flesh and the world, concluding with a scriptural reference.

From concupiscence: A: not yet called; Α: already called.10 While sleeping at night, Watching by day. Of mature11 age.12 Of the flesh,13 Of the world.14 Rom.15

Read the original Latin

Non facere qui oportet.

Commissio, sive excessus,

Facere quie non oportet.

. Cordis, intus, Cogitatione, Oris Verbo,

ες extra, Operis Facto.

In Deum, In proximum, In corpus proprium. aM πες Invitus, Volens. Vetera, Recentia.

Juventutis,

Provectze Semel admissa, Sepius iterata. Occulta,

Manifesta.

Ex concupiscentia { A necdum vocato, Α jam vocato.

De nocte dormiens,

De die vigilans.

Maturze e ! zetatis.

carnis,

mund.

Rom.

Notes

  1. 1 ↩Elliptical Latin Non facere qui oportet; sense is omission of due action (not doing what ought to be done). qui may stand for quod/quae in this catalogue heading.
  2. 2 ↩Source reads 'quie'; translated as the intended 'quae' ('what/which things') in the examination formula Facere quae non oportet.
  3. 3 ↩Fragmentary list likely naming modes of sin or examination (heart/inward thought; mouth/word), continuing into the next section’s exterior/deed clause. Rendering preserves the genitive/ablative structure without expanding into a full sentence.
  4. 4 ↩Source begins with stray Greek letters (ες), almost certainly OCR/print corruption. Reading taken as Latin 'extra, Operis Facto,' parallel to the previous section's intus / cogitatione / oris verbo scheme (inwardly by thought and word → outwardly by deed).
  5. 5 ↩In + accusative in examination-of-conscience lists usually means moral direction of offense ('against' / 'toward'). Rendered as 'against' for the standard tripartite sin-classification (God / neighbor / self).
  6. 6 ↩Normalized text begins with corrupted fragments 'aM πες' (likely OCR/encoding noise from Greek or mis-scanned type). Translation rests only on the clear Latin pair Invitus, Volens.
  7. 7 ↩In private-devotion / confession rubrics, Vetera / Recentia typically classifies sins by time (past vs. recent). Left as bare adjectives to match the elliptical Latin list; understood head is 'sins' or 'faults'.
  8. 8 ↩Latin surface 'Provectze' is almost certainly a corrupt reading of 'Provectae' (of advanced / mature age), parallel to previous 'Juventutis' (of youth). Rendered as 'of later life'.
  9. 9 ↩Manifesta is a bare neuter-plural heading (things open/public), paired in context with Occulta (hidden). Rendered as a confessional category label rather than a full clause.
  10. 10 ↩Heading-like fragment: Ex concupiscentia with a paired schema distinguishing A (necdum vocato) from Α (jam vocato). Concupiscentia kept as the technical term for disordered desire; vocato rendered as 'called' (vocation/calling). The brace and Latin A / Greek Α labels are preserved as source structural markers.
  11. 11 ↩Supplied Latin 'Maturze e !' is almost certainly corrupt/OCR-garbled. Most plausible reconstruction with the following sentence is Maturae (gen. sg. fem.), joining s2 as Maturae aetatis, 'of mature age.' The exclamation point is treated as noise rather than genuine force.
  12. 12 ↩Supplied Latin 'zetatis.' is corrupt; most plausible correction is aetatis., completing with s1 as Maturae aetatis, 'of mature age.'
  13. 13 ↩Standalone genitive fragment (carnis). Neighboring sections look heavily corrupted/OCR-broken (e.g. 'zetatis.', 'mund.'); sense is rendered as genitive 'of the flesh,' pending fuller context.
  14. 14 ↩Source is the abbreviated form mund.; expanded as genitive mundi (“of the world”) to match the preceding carnis, (“of the flesh,”) in the neighboring section. Less likely alternatives (mundus, mundum) do not fit the genitive sequence as cleanly.
  15. 15 ↩Bare abbreviation for the Epistle to the Romans (Lat. Romanos / ad Romanos). Kept as the standard English biblical short form Rom.; no fuller expansion is recoverable from this section alone.

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