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Preces Quotidianae

Opening Invocation of Mercy

The chapter begins with a numbered prayer and a direct appeal to God as merciful.

9. Merciful

A Litany of Divine Attributes

A series of numbered invocations and epithets describing God's gentle, patient, compassionate, and true nature.

4. Gentle, 9. Patient and 6. Of great compassion, and1 7. True,✦

Scriptural Confession of Mercy and Judgment

A dense passage alluding to Exodus 34, confessing God's mercy and justice in forgiving and repaying iniquity.

8. Who keeps mercy for thousands; 9. Who takes away iniquity and 10.✦✦2 Crimes and ]1.✦3 Sins, 129.✦ And he will not clear the guilty.✦4 183. Who repays iniquity of the fathers on the children.✦5

Vows of Perpetual Praise

A declaration of unceasing blessing and praise to the Lord, drawn from the Psalms.

I will bless the Lord at all times; his praise always in my mouth.✦

Angelic and Celestial Praise

A fragmentary passage invoking the Gloria and listing angelic orders, likely part of a larger liturgical prayer.

Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace, goodwill among people.✦ [corrupt: Lwc.] [corrupt: n.] [corrupt: l4.] Angels, Cura, Archangels, [corrupt: 1 7hAess].6 iv. 6. Radiance, Virtues, [corrupt: 1 Pef].7 ii. [corrupt: wit.] Miracles,8

Read the original Latin

9. Misericors

4. Clemens,

9. Patiens et

6. Multe miserationis, ac

7. Verax,

8. Qui custodit misericordiam in millia, 9, Qui aufert iniquitatem et 10. Scelera atque ]1. Peccata, 129. Et sontem non purgabit. 183. Qui reddit iniquitatem

patrum filis.

Benedicam Dominum in omni tempore, semper laus ejus

in ore meo.

Gloria in altissimis DEO, in Terra Pax, in hominibus bona voluntas. Lwc. n. l4. Angeli, Cura, Archangeln, 1 7hAess. iv. 6. Irradiatio, Virtutes, 1 Pef.

ii. wit. Miracula,

Scripture echoes

  1. ↩Exod.34.6 — And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, 'The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.'
  2. ↩Exod.34.6-Exod.34.7 — And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, 'The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.' Exod.34.7 — keeping steadfast love for thousands, bearing iniquity and transgression and sin, yet by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and upon the children's children, to the third and to the fourth generation.
  3. ↩Num.14.18 — The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, yet by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.
  4. ↩Exod.34.7 — keeping steadfast love for thousands, bearing iniquity and transgression and sin, yet by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and upon the children's children, to the third and to the fourth generation.
  5. ↩Exod.34.7 — keeping steadfast love for thousands, bearing iniquity and transgression and sin, yet by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and upon the children's children, to the third and to the fourth generation.
  6. ↩Exod.34.7 — keeping steadfast love for thousands, bearing iniquity and transgression and sin, yet by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and upon the children's children, to the third and to the fourth generation.
  7. ↩Exod.34.7;Num.14.18;Deut.5.9 — keeping steadfast love for thousands, bearing iniquity and transgression and sin, yet by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and upon the children's children, to the third and to the fourth generation. Num.14.18 — The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, yet by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation. Deut.5.9 — You shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me.
  8. ↩Ps.34.2;Ps.35.1 — I will bless the LORD at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth. Ps.35.1 — Contend, O LORD, with those who contend with me; fight against those who fight against me.
  9. ↩Luke.2.14 — Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased.

Notes

  1. 1 ↩Multe is treated as multae (genitive of quality): 'of great/much compassion.' Miserationis (from miseratio) is rendered compassion rather than the protected misericordia lemma 'mercy,' though the sense is closely related.
  2. 2 ↩in millia rendered as 'for thousands' (Exodus-style divine attribute); some traditions expand the Hebrew sense as 'to a thousand generations.'
  3. 3 ↩']1.' looks like a bracketed/structural marker or OCR artifact rather than Latin text; left as printed.
  4. 4 ↩sontem = the guilty person; purgabit = purge/acquit/clear. Rendered with the familiar biblical force 'will not clear the guilty.'
  5. 5 ↩Latin is a bare genitive + dative/ablative fragment (patrum filis). Neighboring lines continue the Exodus 34:7 formula (qui reddit iniquitatem…); filis is almost certainly filiis. Rendered as the biblical dative of destination/visitation rather than a free-standing genitive phrase.
  6. 6 ↩Archangeln almost certainly Archangeli (Archangels). Cura is printed as such but may be a corrupted angelic-order name (e.g. Cherubim/Cherubini); left as Cura pending better witness. '1 7hAess' is unrecoverable OCR noise.
  7. 7 ↩Irradiatio rendered as 'Radiance' (shining forth/illumination). Virtutes is the angelic order Virtues if this continues a celestial hierarchy list; otherwise 'virtues' in the moral sense. '1 Pef' is corrupt—possibly truncated Potestates (Powers).
  8. 8 ↩Miracula is clear Latin (miracles/wonders). In the neighboring angel-order catalog (Virtutes… Throni, Dominationes) this likely names the works of the Virtues (cf. later cleaner parallel Virtutibus mira facientibus), but the present section only supplies the bare noun.

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