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Preces Quotidianae

Cry for Deliverance

A plea to God not to let the psalmist's enemies triumph, and for rescue from the depths of waters.

You, Lord, Lord of hosts.✦ Do not let those who seek you be put to shame because of me, O God of Israel.1 Rescue me from the mire, so I won't sink: free me, from those who hate me, and from the depths of the waters.2 Versicle.3 15.4 Do not let the storm of waters drown me, nor let the deep swallow me,5 nor let the pit close its mouth over me. Versicle.6 16.

Allegorical Struggle Against Sin and Cultivation of Virtue

Using the seven Canaanite nations as symbols for deadly sins, and listing virtues like humility, charity, and contentment.

Pride, Amorite; Envy, Hittite; Anger, Perizzite; Gluttony, Girgashite; Lust, Hivite.✦7 Anxieties about the necessities of life, Canaanite; lukewarm acedia, Jebusite.✦89 Humility,10 Charity, Gentleness, Temperance, Chastity,11 To be content with your lot, Cheerfulness.

Brief Creed and Trinitarian Trust

A concise profession of faith in the Father's natural affection and the Almighty's saving power.

I believe. In the Father, natural affection, In the Almighty, the saving power,12

Heading: Daily Prayers

A heading indicating the section of daily prayers, numbered 114.

114. Daily Prayers.13

Read the original Latin

te, Domine, Domine virtutum.

Non confundantur super me, qui qu:runt te, Deus Israel.

Eripe me de luto, ut non infigar: libera me,

ab iis qui oderunt me, et de profundis

aquarum. Vers. 15.]

Non me demergat tempestas aquze, neque absorbeat me profundum,

neque urgeat super me puteus os suum. Vers. 16.

Superbia, Amorrh:zeus, Invidia, Hethzeus, Iracundia, Pherez:zeus, Gula, Gergezzeus, Luxuria, Hevzus, . Sollieitudines circa vitz necessaria, Chananzeus, Acedia tepida, Jebuseus. Humnilitas,

Charitas,

Mansuetudo,

Temperantia,

Castitas, ὃ

Sorte contentum esse,

Alacritas.

CREDO

In Patre, Naturalem affectionem,

Omnipotente, Potentiam salvificam,

114 ETXAI KAOHMEPINAT.

Scripture echoes

  1. ↩Ps.69.7 — Let me not be put to shame because of those who wait for you, O Lord, Yahweh of hosts; let me not be humiliated because of those who seek you, O God of Israel.
  2. ↩Deut.7.1 — When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and he drives out many nations before you—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—seven nations more numerous and stronger than you,
  3. ↩Deut.7.1 — When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and he drives out many nations before you—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—seven nations more numerous and stronger than you,

Notes

  1. 1 ↩Source reading 'qu:runt' is treated as corrupt for 'quaerunt' (seek); translation follows that intended sense.
  2. 2 ↩Genitive completion of the preceding line: de profundis aquarum — “from the depths of the waters.”
  3. 3 ↩Vers. is the standard rubrical abbreviation for Versiculus (versicle), not a prose sentence.
  4. 4 ↩Printed apparatus marker 15.] treated as a verse/item number, not prose; trailing bracket dropped as editorial punctuation.
  5. 5 ↩Source reading 'aquze' is treated as 'aquae' (of waters); likely OCR/print corruption.
  6. 6 ↩Liturgical rubric abbreviation ‘Vers.’ expanded as ‘Versicle.’ rather than treated as continuous prayer prose.
  7. 7 ↩Source OCR is badly corrupted (Amorrh:zeus, Hethzeus, Pherez:zeus, Gergezzeus, Hevzus). Corrected to the standard seven-nation ethnonyms Amorrhæus / Hethæus / Pherezæus / Gergezæus / Hevæus (Amorite, Hittite, Perizzite, Girgashite, Hivite), paired with Superbia, Invidia, Iracundia, Gula, Luxuria.
  8. 8 ↩Corrected Sollieitudines → Sollicitudines, vitz → vitæ, Chananzeus → Chananæus; Jebuseus taken as Jebusæus. Completes the seven-nation pairing.
  9. 9 ↩Acedia kept as the technical monastic vice (spiritual listlessness/sloth); tepida rendered 'lukewarm' rather than flattened to ordinary laziness.
  10. 10 ↩Humnilitas corrected to Humilitas; isolated list lemma opening the opposing-virtue series continued in the next sections (Charitas, Mansuetudo, etc.).
  11. 11 ↩Source ends with Greek ὃ after Castitas; treated as stray/corrupt mark, not translated. Sense follows list context with Temperantia / Sorte contentum esse.
  12. 12 ↩Omnipotente is ablative and likely continues the In + ablative pattern of the previous line (In Patre...); In is supplied for parallel sense. Potentiam salvificam is accusative, matching Naturalem affectionem.
  13. 13 ↩Source reads 'ETXAI KAOHMEPINAT', which is not Latin. Most plausible intended sense is Greek Εὐχαὶ Καθημεριναί ('Daily Prayers'), matching chapter title Preces Quotidianae; '114' treated as a printed section/page number retained in the heading.

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