LXX. O verbum patris
The Eternal Word and His Foreknowledge
The Word of the Father is the primordial light who, by divine foreknowledge, foresaw and worked all things in the image of an eternal wheel without beginning or end.
O Word of the Father, you are the light of the first dawn, in the circle of the wheel, working all things by divine power. O foreknowledge of God, you foresaw all your works, just as you willed; so it lay hidden in the midst of your power, because you foreknew all things. And you have worked as if in the likeness of a wheel surrounding all things, which received no beginning and is cast down at no end.1
Read the original Latin
O verbum patris, tu lumen prime aurore in circulo rote es omnia in divina vi operans. O tu prescientia dei, omnia opera tua previdisti, sicut voluisti, ita ut in medio potentie tue latuit, quia omnia prescivisti. Et operatus es quasi in similitudine rote cuncta circueuntis, que inicium non accepit nec in fine prostrata est.
Notes
- 1 ↩The relative clause (que...prostrata est) has an uncertain antecedent; it likely refers to the wheel or to the divine work described, and 'prostrata est' may carry a humbling or abasing sense rather than simple 'ending.'
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