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Preces Quotidianae

Confession and Self-Judgment

The speaker freely confesses sin and takes upon themselves the act of self-judgment.

Of my own free will I confess: I have sinned, I have done wrong, I have acted unjustly, I have been rebellious—but I myself pass judgment on myself. I examine myself, I pronounce judgment, I myself exact justice upon myself.✦

The Sacrifice of a Contrite Spirit

A plea for mercy, offering a crushed spirit, contrite heart, and wounded conscience as a sacrifice.

Lord, spare; receive the sacrifice of a spirit. crushed1 of a contrite heart, of a troubled soul, of wounded inmost depths,2 of a wounded conscience.3

The Mercy of the Lord

A brief section marking the confession and affirming that the Lord will have mercy on some.

4. In the “I have sinned,”4 And yet, Lord, you will have mercy on some.

Psalm 89: The Vanity of Human Life

A citation from Psalm 89 questioning whether God has appointed human life in vain and whether the enemy can reproach God for creating humans only to destroy them.

Psalm 89.5 Have you appointed children here in vain6 of men?7 Will the enemy reproach You because You created?8 us to be killed, or that, because you hated us, you created us so that you might des-9 Destroy us and wipe us out? Or is it because you cannot preserve us?

Psalm 74: The Enemy's Reproach

A citation from Psalm 74 remembering how the enemy has reviled the Lord and provoked His name.

Psalm 74 23 Remember this: the enemy has reviled—10 has reviled the Lord, and a foolish people has provoked✦ Your name.✦

Romans and Job: Universal Sin and Human Inability

A combination of scripture references from Romans and Job, declaring that all have sinned and fallen short of God's glory, and that no one can contend with God in judgment.

Romans. m.11 23. Job 9. 9. Everywhere all have sinned, and have set aside—12 have set aside the glory of God.✦13 If you tried to dispute in judgment, you wouldn't be able to—✦14 for thousands,✦15 Not even the most righteous can answer You so much as once.✦16

Read the original Latin

Ultro fateor, Peccavi, iniquitatem feci, Inique egi, rebellis fui, Sed dijudico ipse me,

Recogito, Pronuntio, Vindico ipse in me.

Parce, Domine, Suscipe sacrificium Spiritus. contribulati,

Cordis contriti, Anime conturbatze, Renum vulneratorum,

Conscientiv€ sauciz.

4. In Τὸ peccavi,

Atqui, Domine, aliquorum miseraberis.

Ps. lxxxix. Nunquid in vanum constituisti hie filios

ΗΝ hominum ?

An exprobabit Tibi imimicus, quod creasti

nos occidi, aut, quia odisti, creasti, ut per-

deres et deleres ; aut quia servare non potes?

Psal. lxxiv. 23. Memor esto hujus, Inimicus imprope-

ravit Domino, et populus insipiens incitavit

nomen Tuum.

Rom. m. 23.

Job, ix. 9.

Ubique omnes peccaverunt, et posthabue-

runt gloriam Dei.

Si volueris judicio contendere, non po-

pro millibus,

terit vel justissimus respondere Tibi unum

Scripture echoes

  1. ↩1Cor.11.31 — But if we examined ourselves, we would not be judged.
  2. ↩Ps.74.18 — Remember this: the enemy has taunted the LORD, and a foolish people has despised your name.
  3. ↩Rom.1.23 — and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image resembling corruptible man, birds, four-footed animals, and creeping things.
  4. ↩Rom.3.23 — For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
  5. ↩Job.9.3 — If someone wished to contend with God, he could not answer Him once in a thousand.
  6. ↩Job.9.3 — If someone wished to contend with God, he could not answer Him once in a thousand.
  7. ↩Job.9.3 — If someone wished to contend with God, he could not answer Him once in a thousand.

Notes

  1. 1 ↩contribulati is genitive of contribulatus, 'thoroughly crushed / deeply afflicted.' With Spiritus in the prior sentence it completes 'of a crushed spirit' (cf. spiritus contribulatus). The next section continues the genitive chain (Cordis contriti...).
  2. 2 ↩Source Latin is damaged: Anime conturbatze almost certainly Animae conturbatae. Renum is biblical renes (kidneys/reins), the seat of deep interior feeling; rendered as inmost depths rather than literal kidneys.
  3. 3 ↩Source text is corrupt/OCR-garbled: 'Conscientiv€ sauciz.' Read as Conscientiae sauciae (genitive feminine), continuing the preceding litany of genitives (Cordis contriti, Animae conturbatae, Renum vulneratorum).
  4. 4 ↩Latin mixes Greek article Τὸ with Latin peccavi: In Τὸ peccavi. Read as a heading/label for the confession formula “I have sinned” (τὸ peccavi), not as ordinary prose. Neighboring text (wounded conscience; petition for mercy) supports a confessional cue rather than a full clause.
  5. 5 ↩Citation is Ps. lxxxix (89). The following verse wording matches the familiar Vulgate line usually printed under Ps. 88:48 (Hebrew/English Ps. 89); numbering systems may diverge here.
  6. 6 ↩Source has 'hie'; translated as 'hic' (here). Standard Vulgate parallel is often 'numquid enim vane constituisti omnes filios hominum' (all the children of men); the next section appears to complete with 'hominum?'.
  7. 7 ↩Source reads «ΗΝ hominum ?». The Greek letters ΗΝ look like OCR/print corruption, not intentional Latin. With the previous fragment («…constituisti hie filios») and the next psalm line, the intended continuation is almost certainly genitive «hominum» completing «filios hominum» (Vulg. Ps 88:48: sons of men).
  8. 8 ↩Source reads imimicus; translated as inimicus (enemy), the only paleographically and contextually plausible reading.
  9. 9 ↩The printed line ends mid-word at per-; the next section continues as perderes et deleres. The rendering keeps the break and supplies the purpose force of ut without inventing the unfinished verb here.
  10. 10 ↩Source ends mid-word at a line break: imprope-. Neighboring next section begins ravit Domino…, so the intended form is improperavit (has reviled/reproached). Translation renders the completed sense up to the break.
  11. 11 ↩Source reading is bare 'm.' between 'Rom.' and '23.' Parallel next-section form is 'Job, ix.' / '9.', so this is almost certainly a chapter numeral (or a misread Roman numeral such as iii/xi), not continuous Latin prose. Left as transmitted rather than silently emended.
  12. 12 ↩Source line ends mid-word at posthabue-; the intended form is posthabuerunt, completed from the following section’s runt (and with gloriam Dei continuing there).
  13. 13 ↩Section is a line-break continuation of the previous unit: posthabue- + runt = posthabuerunt. Rendered as the completed finite verb with its object.
  14. 14 ↩Printed line ends mid-word at 'non po-'. Most plausible completion is potes/poteris ('you cannot' / 'you will not be able'), supported by the following fragment 'pro millibus' and the Job 9:3 pattern (unum pro mille / pro millibus).
  15. 15 ↩Print-line fragment continuing the neighboring clause: …respondere Tibi unum pro millibus (one answer for thousands). Rendered to fit that construction, not as a free-standing phrase.
  16. 16 ↩Latin surface 'terit' is almost certainly corrupt for '(non) poterit' (or a similar form of posse). With neighboring 'pro millibus,' the intended sense matches the Job 9:3 pattern: not even the most just can answer God one charge in a thousand. Rendered with the negated sense required for sense; 'vel' taken as intensifying 'even'.

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