Appendix. In Matutinis Laudibus.
The Kiss of Peace Given to Ursula
The zeal of the Godhead bestows the kiss of peace upon Ursula and her virgin company among all peoples.
The zeal of the Godhead, in the highest praises, gave the kiss of peace to Ursula the virgin, with her own company, among all peoples.
Honored Reception and Virginal Guardianship
Ursula's company is received with heavenly joy and joined by religious men who guard and minister to them in virginal custody.
So from wherever they came they went forward, and were received as if with the joy of heavenly paradise, because in the religious conduct of their character they had shown themselves honorably. From their homeland and from other regions, religious and wise men joined themselves to them, who kept them in virginal custody and who ministered to them in all things.
God's Pattern of Sustaining Grace
God's prefiguration of woman nourished by man's guardianship is mirrored in the firmament upholding the air and in the Most High Man sustaining the virgins with heavenly dew that spreads their fame to all peoples.
For God prefigured in the first woman that woman should be nourished by the guardianship of man. For the air flies swiftly, and when it exercises its own offices among all creatures, the firmament upholds it, and the air is fed by the powers of that firmament. And so these girls were sustained through the Most High Man, banner-crowned in the royal offspring of virginal nature. For God sent dew upon them, from which manifold fame grew, so that all peoples tasted of this honorable report as if it were food.
The Devil's Envious Mockery
The devil, in his envy, mocks this work of God, as he leaves no divine work untouched.
But the devil mocked this in his envy, by which he has left no work of God untouched.
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Studium divinitatis in laudibus excelsis osculum pacis Ursule virgini cum turba sua in omnibus populis dedit. Unde quocumque venientes perrexerunt, velut cum gudio celestis paradisi suscepte sunt, quia in religione morum honorifice apparuerunt. De patria etiam earum et de aliis regionibus viri religiosi et sapientes ipsis adiuncti sunt, que eas in virginea custodia servabant, et qui eis in omnibus ministrabant. Deus enim in prima muliere presignavit, ut mulier a viri custodia nutriretur. Aer enim volat et cum omnibus creaturis officia sua exercet, et firmamentum eum sustinet, ac aer in viribus istius pascitur. Et ideo puelle iste per summum virum sustentabantur, vexillate in regali prole virginee nature Deus enim rorem in illas misit, de quo multiplex fama crevit, ita quod omnes populi ex hac honorabili fama velut cibum gustabant. Sed diabolus in invidia sua istud irrisit, qua nullum opus Dei intactum dimisit.
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