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Preces Quotidianae

Opening Plea for Mercy

The chapter opens with a direct plea for mercy at the hour of death, asking that compassion rather than guilt prevail.

Have mercy on me, now and at the hour of death.1 May the guilt of the flesh not lead to punishment. Rather, may the compassion of piety avail for pardon.

Catalog of Sins

A fragmentary list enumerates various sins and states of bondage, followed by a heading that names guilt and liability to judgment.

l. Guilt. 9. Languor. 9. Stain. 4. Bondage. I.2 Guilt. Liable to judgment.3

Petitions for Pardon and Deliverance

A series of numbered petitions implores God to spare, take away, transfer, scatter, grant pardon, forgive, deliver, and be reconciled.

Not for damnation.4 l.5 Spare—spare.6 — 2.7 Take away, take away, take away.8 9. Transfer.9 4. Scatter them, διασκέδασον. ls.10 xxxviii. 17.] 5. Grant pardon, συγχώρησον. (Wis.11 xi. 11.] 6. Forgive; forgive.12 7. Pardon; pardon.13 — 8. Deliver from punishment; rescue; remit. 9.14 Be gracious; be merciful.15 — 10. Be reconciled, καταλλάγηθι.✦16 11. Be gracious again.17

Petitions for Cleansing and Reconciliation

A new section begins with a focus on stain and unsightliness, followed by petitions to turn away from sins, not turn from misery, overlook faults, and cleanse.

II. Stain.18 Stain.19 Unsightly.20 1. Turn your face away from sins; turn it away.✦21 Ps.22 51.✦23 9.24 Do not turn away from misery.✦25 3. Overlook them.26 6. Cleanse,

Read the original Latin

Face mecum misericordiam, nunc et in hora mortis. Ne noceat culpa carnis ad poenam,

Quin prosit miseratio pietatis ad veniam.

l. Reatus. 9. Languor. 9. Macula. 4. Servitus.

]. Reatus. "Yvroóucov.

Ne ad damnationem. l. Parce, φεῖσαι. — 2. Tolle, aufer, aipe. 9. "Transfer. 4.

Dissipa, διασκέδασον. ls. xxxviii. 17.] 5. Veniam da, συγχώρησον. (Sap. xi.

11.] 6. Indulge, ἄφες. 7. Ignosce, σύγγνωθι. — 8. Libera a poena, ῥῦσαι, condona, 9. Propitius esto, ἱλάσθητι.

— 10. Reconciliare, κατωλλάγηθι. 11. Repropitiare.

II. Maeula. KgAís. Δυσειδές.

1. Averte faciem a peccatis, ἀπόστρεψον. |Psal. li. 9.] Ne avertas a miseria.

3. Dissimula, vzépióe.

6. Munda,

Scripture echoes

  1. ↩2Cor.5.20 — Therefore, on behalf of Christ we are ambassadors, as though God were making His appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ: be reconciled to God.
  2. ↩Ps.51.9;Ps.51.11 — Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Ps.51.11 — Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.
  3. ↩Ps.51.9 — Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
  4. ↩Ps.51.9 — Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

Notes

  1. 1 ↩Source Face is read as Fac (imperative of facio): Fac mecum misericordiam, the usual biblical/prayer idiom 'deal mercifully with me / have mercy on me.'
  2. 2 ↩Source reads only '].'; neighboring outline uses Roman numerals (II. Macula; IV. Servitus), so the most plausible intended form is 'I.' (numeral one), a common OCR confusion of I with ].
  3. 3 ↩Source Greek is badly corrupted as '"Yvroóucov.' In this bilingual confession outline, Reatus is paired with Greek; the most plausible intended form is Ὑπόδικον (liable to charge / under judgment), matching the later II. Macula + κηλίς pattern.
  4. 4 ↩Ne ad damnationem is a clipped petition phrase (negative purpose): ‘that it not be for damnation’ / ‘not unto damnation.’ Rendered in plain modern English without expanding an unstated subject.
  5. 5 ↩Source unit is only ‘l.’ Neighboring text has ‘ls. xxxviii. 17,’ so this may be a broken book abbreviation (e.g. Is./Isaiah) or other citation fragment; not silently expanded.
  6. 6 ↩Latin Parce (imperative ‘spare’) is paired with Greek φεῖσαι (same sense). Rendered as a bilingual gloss pair, not as two different English verbs.
  7. 7 ↩Appears to be a list/verse marker rather than a prose sentence.
  8. 8 ↩Tolle and aufer are Latin imperatives of removal. aipe is not standard Latin; most plausible intended Greek is αἶρε (‘take away’), matching the bilingual gloss pattern of this section (cf. Parce / φεῖσαι).
  9. 9 ↩Transfer as imperative can mean ‘transfer,’ ‘remove,’ or ‘take away.’ Kept as ‘Transfer’ to stay close to the Latin surface; petitional sense may be ‘take this away’ in context of neighboring removal verbs.
  10. 10 ↩Source fragment 'ls.' looks corrupt or truncated (possibly a broken reference or abbreviation); left as printed rather than guessed.
  11. 11 ↩Latin 'Sap.' is the traditional abbreviation for Sapientia (Wisdom); rendered as English Bible short title 'Wis.'
  12. 12 ↩Latin Indulge (be lenient / grant pardon) paired with Greek ἄφες (forgive / remit). Rendered as a short petition pair matching the bilingual litany form.
  13. 13 ↩Latin Ignosce (pardon / forgive) with Greek σύγγνωθι (forgive / grant pardon). Kept as a brief bilingual petition pair.
  14. 14 ↩Source packs the petition with the next numeral: Libera a poena, ῥῦσαι, condona, 9. The number 9 almost certainly belongs with the following petition, but is kept here as printed.
  15. 15 ↩Latin Propitius esto (be propitious / favorable) with Greek ἱλάσθητι (be propitiated / show mercy). Avoided archaic propitious in favor of plain solemn petition language.
  16. 16 ↩Source Greek reads κατωλλάγηθι; almost certainly meant as καταλλάγηθι (aor. pass. impv. of καταλλάσσω, ‘be reconciled’), parallel to Latin Reconciliare.
  17. 17 ↩Repropitiare continues the prior Propitius esto / ἱλάσθητι line: not mere kindness, but restored divine favor / propitiation. Rendered as a solemn petition, not casual ‘be nice again’.
  18. 18 ↩Source reads Maeula.; most plausible intended Latin is Macula (stain/spot), fitting the neighboring Greek κηλίς and the sin-confession register of this prayer list.
  19. 19 ↩Source KgAís. is almost certainly garbled Greek κηλίς (stain, blot), the usual Greek counterpart to Latin macula in bilingual confession vocabularies.
  20. 20 ↩Greek δυσειδές means ill-favored, ugly, or of deformed appearance; in this sin-confession word-list it names moral/spiritual ugliness rather than mere physical looks.
  21. 21 ↩Latin omits the usual psalm possessives (tuam / meis). Rendered as a direct address to God with natural English 'your'; 'sins' kept without added 'my'. Greek ἀπόστρεψον is the matching imperative gloss of Averte and is folded into 'turn it away.'
  22. 22 ↩Leading pipe in |Psal. treated as typesetting separator, not part of the citation text. Psal. expanded only to standard modern abbreviation Ps.
  23. 23 ↩Roman numeral li. read as Psalm 51 (Hebrew numbering), matching the verse citation shape Psal. li. 9.
  24. 24 ↩Closing bracket in 9.] treated as typesetting artifact around the verse number.
  25. 25 ↩miseria can mean misery, wretchedness, or distress. Kept as 'misery' for plain modern English; the petition likely implies 'from my misery,' but the Latin has no pronoun.
  26. 26 ↩Second token `vzépióe` is almost certainly corrupt Greek; read as ὑπερίδε (aor. imp. of ὑπεροράω, “overlook”), pairing with Latin Dissimula in the same pattern as the previous section’s Latin + Greek synonyms.

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