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Via Regia (The Royal Road)

Via regia

Smaragdus of Saint-Mihiel·813 CE·from the Latin

A full modern English translation of the work — 1 book, 33 chapters — translated sentence by sentence from the Latin, with scripture echoes traced and brief notes on the harder turns of phrase. Choose a section to begin reading.

33 chapters706 sentences214 scripture echoes
Devotional manualContemplatio — The Ascent
1

Via regia

  1. 1.1Epistola nuncupatoria
  2. 1.2De dilectione Dei et proximi
  3. 1.3De observandis mandatis Domini
  4. 1.4De timore
  5. 1.5De sapientia
  6. 1.6De prudentia
  7. 1.7De simplicitate
  8. 1.8De patientia
  9. 1.9De justitia
  10. 1.10De judicio
  11. 1.11De misericordia
  12. 1.12Ut operibus Dominus honoretur
  13. 1.13De decimis et primitiis
  14. 1.14Ut thesaurus in coelo collocetur
  15. 1.15Qualem et quantum thesaurum in vita sibi homo reconderit, talem et tantum post mortem inveniet
  16. 1.16De non fidendo divitiis
  17. 1.17De non gloriando in divitiis, sed in humilitate
  18. 1.18De pace
  19. 1.19De zelo rectitudinis
  20. 1.20De clementia
  21. 1.21De consilio
  22. 1.22Ut caveat unusquisque superbiam
  23. 1.23De zelo et livore
  24. 1.24De non reddendo malum pro malo
  25. 1.25De reprimenda ira
  26. 1.26De non consentiendo adulatoribus
  27. 1.27De cavenda avaritia
  28. 1.28Ut de impensis alienis domus non aedificetur
  29. 1.29Ut pro justitia facienda nulla a judicibus requirantur praemia
  30. 1.30Ne statera dolosa inveniatur in regno tuo
  31. 1.31Prohibendum ne captivitas fiat
  32. 1.32De praesidio Domini requirendo
  33. 1.33De oratione