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Preces Quotidianae

Hard Things in Great Quantity

The prophet Jeremiah laments the severity of affliction, comparing it to great quantities of hard things.

Jeremiah. 30. 14.✦1 Hard things, 15.✦2 In great quantity,

Sin from the Breast

The psalmist confesses sin that has been present from the mother's breast, invoking Psalm 22 and 25.

Ps.✦ 25. 11. Long, from the mother's breasts;✦3

Thick Ropes of Iniquity

The prophet Isaiah and Hosea describe sin as thick ropes and a deep burden, with a concluding psalm reference.

Isaiah 5.✦4 .5 18.✦ Thick ropes of iniquity; Hosea.✦6 9. 9.✦ Deep—of the burden.✦7 Psalm.

Heavy as Lead

The psalmist describes the heaviness of sin, comparing it to lead.

35. 4.✦ Heavy ones, like lead.8

A Cry to Heaven

A cry of repentance rises to heaven, accompanied by the things that pertain to it.

to heaven itself with a cry9 the things that belong to it.10

Confession of the Worst Sins

The penitent confesses a catalogue of sins: freely chosen vanities, greed, hard-heartedness, stumbling others, ingratitude, and returning to sin like a dog to its vomit.

I have sinned. Sins of the worst quality: because freely, for empty vanities — Romans 6. 2.11 for a handful of barley, a scrap of bread — Ezekiel✦ 12. 19. Because with greediness — Ephesians✦ 4. 19.✦ sin upon sin; because with a hard forehead; Jer.✦12 iii.13 8.✦ Because as a stumbling block; Matt.✦14 xviii.15 7. Because ungrateful; Rom.✦ 1.✦ 21. A dog to its vomit, a sow to the wallow; 2.16 Pet.17 2.18 22.✦19 Because I am a Christian. Gal. n. 21.

The Fruit of Shame

Acknowledging God's justice, the penitent asks what fruit remains from shameful deeds, quoting Romans 6:21.

So then, because You are just and Your judgments are true, I eat the fruit of the lie.20 Rom. 6. For what fruit do I now have from those things of which I am ashamed?✦21

Empty Cisterns

The concluding citation from Jeremiah 2:13 compares forsaking God to drawing from empty cisterns.

Jer. n. 18.] Empty cisterns that hold no water.✦

Read the original Latin

Jer. xxx. l4. Dura, 15. Quantitate magna,

Psal. xxv. 11. Longa, ab uberibus matris ;

ye, y. . 18. Crassa, funes iniquitatis ; Hos. ix. 9. Profunda, T oneris. Psal.

xxxv. 4. Gravia imstar ; plumbi.

Ad colum ipsum clamore

suo pertingentia.

Peccavi Peccata Qualitate pessima, Quia gratis, propter vana, Rom. vi. 2]. pro pugillo hordei, pauxillo panis; Ezech. xii. 19. Quia cum aviditate, Eph. iv.

19. peecatum super peccatum ; Quia dura fronte; Jer. in. 8. Quia in scandalum; Matt. xin. 7. Quia ingratus, Rom.

i. 21. Canis ad vomitum, Sus ad volutabrum; 2. Pef. τι. 292. Quia Christianus. Gal.

n. 21.

Inde autem, quia Justus es Tu, et vera Judicia Tua, Comedo fructus mendaci. Rom. vi. 921 Nam quem fructum jam habeo in is de quibus erubesco?

Jer, n. 18.] Cisternas vacuas, aquam non habentes.

Scripture echoes

  1. ↩Jer.30.14 — All your lovers have forgotten you; they do not seek you. For I have struck you with the blow of an enemy, with cruel discipline — because your iniquity is great, your sins are many.
  2. ↩Jer.30.14-Jer.30.15 — All your lovers have forgotten you; they do not seek you. For I have struck you with the blow of an enemy, with cruel discipline — because your iniquity is great, your sins are many. Jer.30.15 — Why do you cry out over your breaking? Your pain is beyond healing. Because your guilt is great, your sins have multiplied, I have done these things to you.
  3. ↩Ps.25.11 — For the sake of your name, O LORD, forgive my iniquity, for it is great.
  4. ↩Ps.22.10;Ps.25.11 — For you are the one who drew me from the womb, who made me trust at my mother's breast. Ps.25.11 — For the sake of your name, O LORD, forgive my iniquity, for it is great.
  5. ↩Isa.5.18 — Woe to those who drag iniquity with cords of deceit, and with cart ropes drag sin—
  6. ↩Isa.5.18 — Woe to those who drag iniquity with cords of deceit, and with cart ropes drag sin—
  7. ↩Isa.5.18 — Woe to those who drag iniquity with cords of deceit, and with cart ropes drag sin—
  8. ↩Hos.9.9 — They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah; he will remember their iniquity, he will punish their sins.
  9. ↩Hos.9.9 — They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah; he will remember their iniquity, he will punish their sins.
  10. ↩Ps.35.4 — Let those who seek my life be put to shame and let those who devise my ruin be turned back and brought to disgrace.
  11. ↩Ezek.13.19 — And you have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and pieces of bread, to put to death souls that should not die and to keep alive souls that should not live, by your lies to my people who listen to lies.
  12. ↩Eph.4.19 — Having become callous, they have given themselves over to sensuality, for the practice of every kind of impurity with greed.
  13. ↩Eph.4.19 — Having become callous, they have given themselves over to sensuality, for the practice of every kind of impurity with greed.
  14. ↩Jer.3.3;Jer.5.3;Isa.30.1 — So the showers were withheld, and there was no spring rain; yet you had the brazen face of a prostitute — you refused to be ashamed. Jer.5.3 — O LORD, do Your eyes not look for faithfulness? You have struck them, but they felt no pain; You have consumed them, but they refused to accept correction. They have made their faces harder than rock; they have refused to return. Isa.30.1 — Oh, rebellious children, declares the LORD, who carry out a plan, but not from me, and who pour out a libation, but not of my Spirit, in order to heap sin upon sin.
  15. ↩Jer.3.3 — So the showers were withheld, and there was no spring rain; yet you had the brazen face of a prostitute — you refused to be ashamed.
  16. ↩Matt.18.7 — Woe to the world because of stumbling blocks! For it is necessary that stumbling blocks come, but woe to the person through whom the stumbling block comes.
  17. ↩Rom.1.21 — For although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or give him thanks, but they became futile in their reasonings, and their senseless hearts were darkened.
  18. ↩Rom.1.21 — For although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or give him thanks, but they became futile in their reasonings, and their senseless hearts were darkened.
  19. ↩2Pet.2.22 — It has happened to them according to the true proverb: 'A dog returns to its own vomit,' and 'A sow, after washing herself, returns to wallowing in the mud.'
  20. ↩Rom.6.21 — What fruit, then, did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
  21. ↩Jer.2.13 — For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewn out for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold the water.

Notes

  1. 1 ↩Normalized surface is “l4.”; most plausible intended reading is Arabic 14 (OCR l/1 confusion), as a verse number after Jer. xxx.
  2. 2 ↩“Dura” may be neuter plural “hard/harsh things,” feminine singular “harsh,” or the truncated head of a longer lemma; “15.” is most likely a second verse number in a 14–15 citation, not part of the Latin word.
  3. 3 ↩In the neighboring chain these brief adjectives appear to classify sins (cf. prior Dura / Quantitate magna; following Crassa, funes iniquitatis). Longa is rendered as the bare adjective Long to keep that catalog style; ab uberibus matris is kept literal rather than paraphrased as 'from infancy.'
  4. 4 ↩Source reads 'ye, y.' — almost certainly a corrupt OCR of 'Is. v.' (Isaiah 5), given the following verse number and the Isaiah 5:18 echo in s4.
  5. 5 ↩Source is only a lone period with no lexical content; left empty rather than inventing wording.
  6. 6 ↩'Crassa, funes iniquitatis' is a compressed tag-phrase (thick cords/ropes of wrongdoing), not a full sentence; rendered as a label matching the neighboring citation style.
  7. 7 ↩Source 'Profunda, T oneris' is broken. Taken as 'Profunda … oneris' (deep [things] of burden/weight). The isolated 'T' may be a stray OCR artifact or remnant of 'ponderis'.
  8. 8 ↩Reading 'imstar' as 'instar' (like / after the pattern of), a common OCR/print corruption; 'Gravia instar plumbi' = heavy things/sins, like lead. Fits the neighboring sin-catalog labels (Crassa…, Profunda…).
  9. 9 ↩Reading supplied 'colum' as 'caelum' (heaven). Neighboring fragments ('Gravia instar plumbi' … 'suo pertingentia') support the sense of sins heavy as lead, reaching heaven itself with their cry.
  10. 10 ↩Standalone fragment. With the previous section (Ad colum/caelum ipsum clamore), the continuous Latin may be meant as clamore suo pertingentia—reaching [even to heaven itself] with their own cry. The isolated words more naturally read as appurtenances/things that belong or pertain.
  11. 11 ↩Source reads “2].”; treated as verse 2 with a likely bracket/OCR artifact.
  12. 12 ↩Source peecatum treated as peccatum (typo/OCR).
  13. 13 ↩Source in. read as Roman numeral iii (chapter of Jeremiah), the most plausible OCR correction in this citation string.
  14. 14 ↩in scandalum rendered 'as a stumbling block' (cause of others' fall); could also be 'to the scandal of others'.
  15. 15 ↩Source xin. read as xviii (Matthew 18), matching the scandal allusion.
  16. 16 ↩Elliptical proverbial confession (no finite verb in the Latin); the sense is the biblical image of returning to former filth.
  17. 17 ↩Source prints 'Pef.'; most plausible intended reading is 'Pet.' (Petrus/Peter) in a 2 Pet. citation.
  18. 18 ↩Source prints Greek 'τι.'; most plausible intended reading is Latin chapter 'ii.' (2) in a 2 Pet. ii citation.
  19. 19 ↩Source prints '292.'; in context of the dog/sow proverb and 2 Pet. citation chain, the intended verse is almost certainly 22 (2 Pet. 2:22).
  20. 20 ↩mendaci is read as genitive of mendax/mendacium: fruit of the lie/falsehood (not of a particular liar).
  21. 21 ↩Leading '921' is treated as non-syntactic edition/page apparatus and not rendered in the English sentence; 'in is' is read as 'in iis' ('in/from those things').

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