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Preces Quotidianae

The Mercy of God in Scripture

This pericope catalogs biblical references to God's mercy, from Psalm 5 to Psalm 36, emphasizing its abundance and depth.

The mercy of God.1 Psalm 5.2 7.3 Many, 51.4 1. Manifold, 1 Peter5 4. 10. Abundantly, Psalm✦6 119.7 156.✦ Great… rising and setting…✦8 Deep, the abyss.9

To the Heavens and Above

The meditation moves from God's mercy reaching to the heavens to being above the heavens, highlighting its transcendence.

36. 5. to the heavens✦10 cvill.11 4. Above the heavens.

Rubric of the Eternal

Fragments of a rubric or prayer heading, including 'Eternal 1' and 'After', suggest a liturgical structure.

d.12 Before,13 em.14 17. Eternal 115 Afterward.

The Scope and Measure of Mercy

This pericope declares that God's mercies are over all His works, over our sin, and over His righteousness, and that His mercy is as great as He is.

145.✦16 9. His mercies are over all His works. Romans. 5. 20, Over our sin, James n.17 19: Over His righteousness. Sirach18 2 18 According to his greatness, so His mercy is with Him.

The Nature and Witness of Mercy

Salvation is infinite, God is the Father of mercies, mercy is natural to Him, and it is even called God; Augustine and Chrysostom bear witness to the comfort of this name.

Psalm 21.19 19. Salvation is infinite, for I don't know its end—20 its end.21 Father of mercies,✦ 1 Corinthians.✦22 It's natural to Him.23 Psalm 59. 18. — Mercy itself is called God. Augustine. O name in which no one should ever despair. Chrysostom.24 The pit of my sins is great, but the abyss of God's mercy is greater.25

Concluding Fragments

A final question about the appearance of mercy and an illegible fragment conclude the chapter.

1. But what kind is it in appearance,26 And.27 Prayers.28 [Illegible source fragment.]29

Read the original Latin

MISERICORDIA DET. Pra v. 7T. Multz, li. 1. Multiplices, l Pet. iv. 10.

Copiose, Psal. cxix. 156. Magnse, EP eru Ortus et occasus, snas7. Profundz, abyssus.

xxxvi. 5. ad coelos, l Altze 1

cvill. 4. super coelos.

d. Ante,

em. 17. ZEternse 1

- Post.

exlv. 9. Miserationes Ejus super omnia opera Ejus. Rom. v. 20, Super peccatum nostrum, Jac. n. 19: Super justitiam Ejus.

Syr. ii. 18. Secundum magnitudinem illius, sic

est misericordia Ipsius cum Ipso.

Pon xxi. 19. Salus infinita, nescio enim ter-

minum ipsius.

PATER MISERICORDIARUM,

l Cor. ἂς θὲ Naturalis Illi.

Psal. lix. 18. — Misericordia ipsa dicitur Deus.

August. O nomen, sub quo nemini desperandum.

Chrysos. Grande est barathrum peccatorum meorum, sed major est abyssus misericordie Dei.

1. Qualis vero in specie,

AND. PREQCES. 8nH-

Scripture echoes

  1. ↩Ps.119.156;Ps.119.156 — Great are your compassions, O LORD; according to your ordinances, give me life. Ps.119.156 — Great are your compassions, O LORD; according to your ordinances, give me life.
  2. ↩Ps.119.156 — Great are your compassions, O LORD; according to your ordinances, give me life.
  3. ↩Ps.50.1 — A Psalm of Asaph. God, the LORD God, has spoken and summoned the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.
  4. ↩Ps.36.5;Ps.108.4 — Iniquity is plotted upon his bed; he stations himself on a way that is not good; evil he does not reject. Ps.108.4 — For you are great above the heavens, and your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.
  5. ↩Ps.145.9 — The LORD is good to all, and his tender mercies are over all his works.
  6. ↩2Cor.1.3 — Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,
  7. ↩2Cor.1.3 — Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,

Notes

  1. 1 ↩Source reading `MISERICORDIA DET.` is almost certainly corrupt OCR for `MISERICORDIA DEI.` (The mercy of God), parallel to the preceding heading `MISERICORDIA EJUS.` (His mercy).
  2. 2 ↩Source reading `Pra v.` is corrupt OCR for a psalm citation, most plausibly `Ps. v.` / `Psa. v.` (Psalm 5), continued by the verse numeral in the next sentence.
  3. 3 ↩Source reading `7T.` appears to be verse numeral 7 with trailing OCR garbage (`T`); pairs with the preceding Psalm 5 citation (cf. Ps 5:7 Vg, in multitudine misericordiae tuae).
  4. 4 ↩`Multz` restored as `Multae` (ae-ligature OCR → z, documented for this witness). `li.` taken as Roman numeral 51, matching the citation style of neighboring fragments (e.g. Suavis, xix.).
  5. 5 ↩`l Pet.` restored as `1 Pet.` (initial numeral 1 misread as letter l). Multiplices rendered Manifold, the natural English for this mercy/grace epithet and the forthcoming 1 Pet. iv. 10 reference.
  6. 6 ↩Source reads 'Copiose, Psal.'—treated as a lemma/catchword plus Psalm citation label (copiose = abundantly/copiously; Psal. = Psalm). OCR and line-breaking make the full lemma uncertain.
  7. 7 ↩Roman numeral 'cxix.' rendered as Arabic 119 (standard modern Psalm numbering for this citation string).
  8. 8 ↩Source is heavily corrupt: 'Magnse, EP eru Ortus et occasus, snas7.' Recoverable Latin is Magnæ/Magnae ('great') and 'Ortus et occasus' ('rising and setting' / east and west). 'EP eru' and 'snas7' are illegible OCR; not silently expanded into a full verse.
  9. 9 ↩Source 'Profundz, abyssus.' read as Profundæ/Profunda + abyssus ('deep' / 'the deep, an abyss'). Likely a broken lemma toward abyssal depth language (cf. 'abyssus abyssum' / 'judicia tua abyssus multa'), but the line is not a complete sentence.
  10. 10 ↩Printed source is corrupt: 'ad coelos, l Altze 1'. Only 'ad coelos' is securely readable Latin; 'l Altze 1' looks like OCR damage (possibly for altae / a list or note marker) and is not silently expanded into full psalm wording.
  11. 11 ↩Source reading 'cvill.' is opaque and likely OCR/print corruption (possibly a numeral or heading such as cviii.). Left as found; sense cannot be recovered from this span alone.
  12. 12 ↩Source is a single letter with period only; no recoverable full Latin word or clause in this sentence. Left as the printed form.
  13. 13 ↩Latin Ante is a bare preposition/adverb with trailing comma and no object in this section; sense is incomplete pending surrounding reconstruction.
  14. 14 ↩Source is only the fragment “em.” with no recoverable full Latin word in this section; rendered as a remnant, not as continuous prose.
  15. 15 ↩Normalized reading takes “ZEternse” as a plausible OCR corruption of Latin Æternæ / Aeternae (“eternal”); the trailing “1” is kept as a structural number. Alternative vocative Aeterne (“O Eternal One”) is possible but less likely from the final “se” ending.
  16. 16 ↩Source reads 'exlv.'; treated as cxlv (145), the same c/e roman-numeral confusion noted elsewhere in this work (e.g. exxxviii → cxxxviii). The following verse wording matches Psalm 145:9 (Heb./Eng.; Vulg. often Ps 144:9).
  17. 17 ↩Source is bare 'n.' between Jac. and 19. In this citation pattern it is almost certainly a corrupt or misread chapter numeral (compare ii./v./etc.), not continuous Latin prose. Left as transmitted rather than silently emended.
  18. 18 ↩Syr. is treated as the book abbreviation for Sirach (Ecclesiasticus), matching the following citation and the Sirach 2:18 wording.
  19. 19 ↩Source reads 'Pon xxi.' Taken as a structural citation, most plausibly Psalm 21 (xxi), with 'Pon' treated as a corrupt/abbreviated form of Ps./Psal.
  20. 20 ↩Source ends mid-word as 'ter-'; completed from neighboring next-section Latin 'minum' as 'terminum' (end/limit). Possessive 'ipsius' remains in the following section.
  21. 21 ↩Printed line-break fragment: 'minum' completes 'terminum' from the previous unit ('Salus infinita, nescio enim ter-'); intended reading is terminum ipsius, 'its end/limit'.
  22. 22 ↩Source reads “l Cor.”; taken as the biblical abbreviation “1 Cor.” (I Cor.), with lowercase “l” as a common misreading of “1”/“I”. Neighboring “PATER MISERICORDIARUM” points to 2 Cor 1:3, so the intended book number may instead be 2 Cor.
  23. 23 ↩Normalized text begins with non-Latin “ἂς θὲ”, which looks like OCR/encoding garbage and was not translated. The intelligible Latin remainder is “Naturalis Illi.”—predicate gloss in the dative: natural to Him (likely of divine mercy, given neighboring context).
  24. 24 ↩Source abbreviation 'Chrysos.' is treated as Chrysostom (Chrysostomus), matching the neighboring 'August.' attribution pattern.
  25. 25 ↩misericordie is read as misericordiae (of mercy); standard medieval spelling without ae digraph.
  26. 26 ↩Latin is a fragment ending at a comma (Qualis vero in specie,); sense may depend on lost following text. Rendered as an incomplete clause rather than completed by conjecture.
  27. 27 ↩Source token is English-looking 'AND.' rather than clear Latin; rendered as a connective fragment pending source cleanup.
  28. 28 ↩Normalized 'PREQCES.' treated as OCR error for PRECES ('prayers').
  29. 29 ↩Raw '8nH-' cannot be restored to a trustworthy Latin reading; left as an illegible fragment rather than invented wording.

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