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Chapter 71PrecesPriv.1.71

Preces Quotidianae

Thanksgiving for Spiritual Companions

The author gives thanks for parents, teachers, benefactors, and faithful companions in the faith.

For my good and upright parents, for gentle teachers, For benefactors of eternal memory,1 For companions in the same sacred mysteries who are of one mind; for wise hearers; for true friends; for faithful members of the household; for all the Scriptures.23

Gratitude for All Benefits

The author reflects on conversations and experiences that have shaped him, confesses gratitude for all known and unknown benefits, and humbly acknowledges his unworthiness with a scriptural allusion.

Conversations4 that have come to me: through prayers, through examples, through rebukes.5 Through injuries: For all these, and for all the others—known and unknown, open and hidden, those I remember and those I have forgotten—by which I have been affected willingly or against my will: I confess to You, I bless You, I give You thanks, and I will confess, I will bless You, and I will give You thanks, all the days of my life.6 Who am I, Lord God, and what is my father's house, that You have looked upon a dead dog like me?✦✦7 2 Samuel 6.8 18.✦ and 9. 8.✦

A Question of Repayment

The author asks what he can possibly give back to the Lord for all the blessings he has received.

What can I give back to the Lord for all✦ that he has given me?9

Read the original Latin

Parentibus meis bonis atque honestis, Magistris mitibus,

Benefactoribus zeternze memoriz,

Pro ] Symmystis idem sentientibus, Auditoribus cordatis, Amicis germanis, Domesticis fidelibus ; Pro omnibus Scriptis

Colloquiis

qui mihi ] Precibus ppt; Exemplis Reprehensionibus . Injuriis ] Pro his omnibus, omnibusque aliis, cognitis, incognitis, manifestis, occultis, quie recordor, quai oblitus sum, quibus volens vel invitus sum affectus ; Confiteor tibi benedico gratias ago et confitebor, p» benedicam, et gratias agam, omnibus diebus vitzte mese. Quis ego sum, Domine Deus, et quz domus Patris mei, quoniam respexisti super canem mortuum similem mei? 2 Sam. vi. 18. et ix. 8.

Quid retribuam Domino pro omnibus

quie retribuit mihi?

Scripture echoes

  1. ↩2Sam.7.18 — Then King David went in and sat before the LORD, and he said, 'Who am I, Lord GOD, and what is my house, that You have brought me this far?'
  2. ↩2Sam.9.8 — And he bowed down and said, "What is your servant, that you have turned your attention to a dead dog like me?"
  3. ↩2Sam.7.18 — Then King David went in and sat before the LORD, and he said, 'Who am I, Lord GOD, and what is my house, that You have brought me this far?'
  4. ↩2Sam.9.8 — And he bowed down and said, "What is your servant, that you have turned your attention to a dead dog like me?"
  5. ↩2Sam.6.18 — When David had finished offering the burnt offerings and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD of hosts.

Notes

  1. 1 ↩Supplied reading `Benefactoribus zeternze memoriz` is corrupt; translated as the standard devotional formula Benefactoribus aeternae memoriae (benefactors of eternal/everlasting memory).
  2. 2 ↩Symmystis (from Greek σύμμυστος) is rendered as 'companions in the same sacred mysteries'; it can also mean fellow-initiates or fellow communicants. Scriptis is taken as 'the Scriptures,' though it could mean writings more broadly.
  3. 3 ↩Source has 'Pro ]' with a bracket marker also seen elsewhere in this chapter; treated as a list heading 'For' rather than as meaningful content.
  4. 4 ↩Ablative plural colloquiis alone: in this prayer-list context it most likely continues the preceding Pro-series as another category (conversations/colloquies), or anticipates the following ablatives of means (by conversations). Rendered as the bare category; no Pro/by supplied in the Latin of this section.
  5. 5 ↩Source is fragmentary and apparatus-like (lemma mark ]). Unparsed token “ppt” omitted; likely OCR noise or an unresolved abbreviation between list items.
  6. 6 ↩Normalized corrupt forms: quie/quai → quae; p» → te (te benedicam, parallel to benedico); vitzte mese → vitae meae.
  7. 7 ↩quz → quae (quae domus Patris mei).
  8. 8 ↩Printed “vi.” most plausibly OCR for “vii.” (7): the wording of s3 matches 2 Sam 7:18, not 6:18.
  9. 9 ↩Source reads 'quie'; taken as corrupt for relative 'quae' in the Psalm clause continued from PrecesPriv.1.71.6 ('Quid retribuam Domino pro omnibus quae retribuit mihi?').

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