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Preces Quotidianae

Repentance and Hope

God grants repentance leading to life, leaving room for forgiveness and hope.

3. God has given repentance that leads to life.✦ Acts.✦1 11. 18.✦ Room has been left for forgiveness, if only the sin is still.2 Hope remains, Ezra. 10.

No Stumbling Block

The Lord removes stumbling blocks and offers an easy refuge of repentance, urging us through proclamation.

3. It will not be a stumbling block, Ezekiel.✦3 14. 3. There is a sanction.4 . An easy refuge, as if by a second plank.5 But God does urge us on, by proclaiming.6

Divine Entreaties

God urges repentance through complaint, oath, waiting, promise, and threat, as shown in Psalms, Ezekiel, and Luke.

Ps.✦7 55 7✦ By complaining.8 By swearing an oath.9 Ezekiel 32 11✦10 By waiting. Ps.11 30. 18. By promising: paradise for innocence, the kingdom of heaven for repentance.12 By threatening, unless, Luke 12. b.13

The Threefold Armor

Prayer, fasting, and almsgiving overcome the demon, the flesh, and the world.

Prayer offers up the soul; fasting offers up the body.14 Almsgiving is a good.15 The demon—by God.16 He conquers the flesh for us.✦17 The world—for the neighbor.✦

Confession of Sins

The soul confesses its sinfulness before God in humble repentance.

Confession of Sins. I. Here I am, Lord—the greatest. Here I am, the worst of sinners, the most wretched!18 And what can I say now, or with what can I open my mouth? What will I answer, when I myself have done it — done it, done it?19

Read the original Latin

3. Penitentiam dedit Deus ad vitam. 4c/. xi. 18. Loeus relictus est remissioni, si cubat tantum peccatum. Superest spes, Ezr. x.

3. non erit in scandalum, Ezech. xiv. 3. sanctio est. . fceivitas refugu, Quasi í secunda tabula. Deus vero solicitat, Proclamando.

s. lv. 7. Conquerendo. Dejerando. Ezech. xxxii. ll.

Expectando. s. xxx. 18. Promittendo, f Paradisum innocentiz, 51, Calorum regnum peenitentiz. Minando, nisi, Luc. xii. b.

Oratio animam Jejunium | corpus ,immolat.

Eleemosyna bonum

Dxmonem Deo. Carnem vincit Nobis. Mundum Proximo.

CONFESSIO PECCATORUM.

I. Ecce me, Domine, Maximum, Ecce me, peccatorum 4 Pessimum, Miserrimum ! (Et quid dicam jam, aut in quo aperiam os meum ? Quid respondebo, cum ipse fecerim, fecerim, fecerim?)

Scripture echoes

  1. ↩Acts.11.18 — When they heard these things, they fell silent. And they glorified God, saying, 'Then God has given even to the Gentiles repentance unto life.'
  2. ↩Acts.11.18 — When they heard these things, they fell silent. And they glorified God, saying, 'Then God has given even to the Gentiles repentance unto life.'
  3. ↩Acts.11.18 — When they heard these things, they fell silent. And they glorified God, saying, 'Then God has given even to the Gentiles repentance unto life.'
  4. ↩Ezek.14.3 — Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their hearts and have placed the stumbling block of their iniquity right before their faces. Should I indeed let myself be consulted by them?
  5. ↩Ps.55.7 — And I say, "Who will give me wings like a dove? I would fly away and be at rest."
  6. ↩Ps.55.7 — And I say, "Who will give me wings like a dove? I would fly away and be at rest."
  7. ↩Ezek.32.11 — For thus says the Lord GOD: The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon you.
  8. ↩Gal.5.16-Gal.5.24;Rom.8.3-Rom.8.13 — But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not fulfill the desire of the flesh. Gal.5.17 — For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh; these are opposed to each other, so that you may not do the things you wish. Gal.5.18 — But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Gal.5.19 — Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, Gal.5.20 — idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, factions Gal.5.21 — envies, drunkennesses, revelries, and the like — which things I forewarn you, just as I have already said, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. Gal.5.22 — But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, Gal.5.23 — gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. Gal.5.24 — And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. Rom.8.3 — For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh. Rom.8.4 — so that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. Rom.8.5 — For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. Rom.8.6 — For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace. Rom.8.7 — Because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to the law of God, for it is not able to do so— Rom.8.8 — But those who are in the flesh cannot please God. Rom.8.9 — But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, that person does not belong to him. Rom.8.10 — But if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, yet the Spirit is life because of righteousness. Rom.8.11 — And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you. Rom.8.12 — So then, brothers and sisters, we are debtors—not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. Rom.8.13 — For if you live according to the flesh, you are about to die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
  9. ↩1John.2.15-1John.2.17 — Do not love the world, nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 1John.2.16 — For all that is in the world—the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the pride of life—is not from the Father, but is from the world. 1John.2.17 — And the world is passing away, and its desire; but the one who does the will of God remains forever.

Notes

  1. 1 ↩Source reads '4c/.'; treated as corrupted abbreviation for 'Act.' (Acts), given the Acts 11:18 sense of the preceding sentence and the following 'xi. 18.'
  2. 2 ↩Normalized 'Loeus' as 'Locus' (clear OCR/print error). 'cubat' retained as 'lies still/at rest'; sense is slightly uncertain.
  3. 3 ↩scandalum rendered as 'stumbling block' (biblical sense); could also be 'cause of scandal' or 'snare.'
  4. 4 ↩sanctio can mean a binding ordinance, ratified decree, or attached penalty; terse note-style Latin leaves the exact legal/devotional force open.
  5. 5 ↩Normalized reading reconstructed as 'Facilitas refugii, quasi a secunda tabula.' Source 'fceivitas refugu, Quasi í secunda tabula' is corrupt. 'Secunda tabula' is the traditional image of repentance as the second plank after shipwreck.
  6. 6 ↩solicitat lacks an explicit object; 'us' is supplied from context. Proclamando is an ablative gerund of means and may also function as the first item in the following gerund series (Conquerendo, Dejerando).
  7. 7 ↩Bare 's.' is treated as the common prayer-book abbreviation for Psalm (Ps.), matching the neighboring citation pattern (e.g. s. xxx. 18).
  8. 8 ↩Conquerendo is taken from conqueror (to complain, make complaint), not from 'conquer.' Parallel to the neighboring gerunds Proclamando, Expectando, Promittendo, Minando for ways God urges.
  9. 9 ↩Dejerando (deierare/dejerare): to swear solemnly / take an oath.
  10. 10 ↩Source 'll.' is most plausibly a misread or typographic form of verse '11' (or less likely Roman 'ii'); rendered as 11 to complete Ezek 32:11.
  11. 11 ↩Bare 's.' is treated as a book abbreviation, most likely Ps. (Psalm), matching the neighboring s. / Roman-numeral / verse pattern.
  12. 12 ↩Normalized likely OCR forms: innocentiz→innocentiae; Calorum→Caelorum; peenitentiz→paenitentiae. Residual tokens 'f' and '51' look like apparatus debris or citation markers and were not forced into the English sense.
  13. 13 ↩Bare 'b.' may mark a verse-letter subdivision, column, or apparatus note; left as 'b.' rather than invented expansion.
  14. 14 ↩Source punctuation is broken (`Jejunium | corpus ,immolat`). Rendered as a parallel with one shared verb: Oratio animam, Jejunium corpus immolat.
  15. 15 ↩Fragmentary Latin (Eleemosyna bonum) with no finite verb; rendered as a nominal clause equating almsgiving with a good. Neighboring sections look telegraphic/tabular and may be incomplete.
  16. 16 ↩Reading Dxmonem as Daemonem (demon/devil); x is almost certainly OCR corruption of ae/æ.
  17. 17 ↩Nobis taken as dative of advantage ('for us'). Ablative of means ('by us') is possible but weaker with active vincit and the parallel God/neighbor datives.
  18. 18 ↩Source has an isolated '4' between peccatorum and Pessimum (likely a print/OCR mark or footnote callout). Translated as if absent: peccatorum Pessimum.
  19. 19 ↩Triple fecerim is kept as emphatic self-indictment (repetition of guilt), not smoothed into a single verb.

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