Ælfric

Name: Ælfric's Lives of Saints — Of Saint Alban
Author: Ælfric

Ælfric's Lives of Saints — Of Saint Alban

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“Ælfric's Lives of Saints — Of Saint Alban”, is a work by Ælfric. It explores elements such as Evilly doeth, Saviour and bið.

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Ælfric, Ælfric's Lives of Saints — Of Saint Alban

“ The righteous judge must judge ever aright,
and ever further justice for the love of God,
seeing that bribes blind, even as books tell us,
the minds of men who wickedly take them [Prov. xxii. , Vulg.] ,
and thus pervert their judgments into injustice.
None of God's thanes may decide a cause for gain,
but maintain the judgment, if he be the Lord's man,
without miserable bribes, ever for the right,
that he may receive his reward in the eternal life. ”

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“ The Saviour answered him, 'Verily I say unto thee,
now to-day thou shalt be with Me in Paradise.'
Thus earned the wicked thief,
in his death-throes, the eternal life with Christ,
because he believed in Christ, and besought His mercy.
Evilly doeth he to himself who provides for himself fraudulently,
and he shall be the companion of robbers, whom men punish ignominiously. ”

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“ So likewise those unrighteous judges who pervert their judgments,
always for gain, and not for justice,
and always offer their justice for sale,
and thus sell themselves for the sake of money,
then shall they have in the end, for their unrighteousness,
eternal torments with the treacherous devil. ”

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“ Then asked the judge immediately, and said,
'Of what family art thou, or of what rank among men?'
Then Alban answered the wicked man thus:
'What concerneth it thee, of what family I may be?
but if thou desire to hear the truth, I tell thee quickly
that I am a Christian, and will ever worship Christ.'
The judge said to him: 'Tell me thy name,
without any delay, now that I thus ask.'
The champion of God said to the murderer thus,
'I am hight Albanus, and I believe in the Saviour,
who is the true God, and made all creatures ”

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“ Alban answered him: ' Your sacrifices to the gods,
which ye offer to devils, cannot help you,
nor profit your cause, but ye shall receive as your meed
everlasting punishments in the wide-reaching hell,'
Lo! then the judge became fiendishly irate,
and commanded men to scourge the holy martyr,
weening that he might bend the steadfastness of his mind
to his (own) forms of worship by means of the stripes ”

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“ Þa ƿearð se cƿellere þe hine acƿellan sceolde ⁠098
þurh  ƿundor abryrd · ⁊ aƿearp his sƿurd
arn ða ardlice þaða hi ofer ða ea comon ·
⁊ feoll to his fotum mid fullum geleafan ·
ƿolde mid him sƿeltan ærðan þe he hine sloge ·
He ƿearð þa gean-læht mid anrædum geleafan ⁠103
to ðam halgan ƿere þe he beheafdian sceolde ·
⁊  sƿurd læg þær scynende him ætforan ·
⁊ heora nan nolde naht eaðe hine slean ·
Ða ƿæs ðær gehende þam halgan ƿære ⁠107
án myrige dún mid ƿyrtum amet ·
mid eallre fægernysse ⁊ eac ful smeðe. ”

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“ Yfele deð him sylfum þe mid sƿicdome his tilað · ⁠172
⁊ he bið sceaðena gefera þe man sceandlice ƿitnað ·
Se sƿicola bedyddrað his dæda ƿið menn · ⁠174
ac hi beoð geopenode oft unþances
huru on domes dæg · þær nan ðincg digle ne bið ·
⁊ he hæfð þonne ece ƿite forðan þe his ƿærscype ne dohte ·
Se sceaða bið nu ofslagen ⁊ to sceame getucod · ⁠178
⁊ his earme saƿl syððan syðað to helle
to ðam ecum suslum on sƿeartum racenteagum · ”

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“ Hi ƿorhton eac þa ƿurðlice cyrcan ⁠143
þam halgan albane ðær he bebyrged ƿæs ·
⁊ þær ƿurdon gelome ƿundra gefremode ·
þam hælende to lofe ðe leofað á on ecnysse ·
Þis ƿæs geƿorden ær ðæt geƿinn come ⁠147
ðurh hengest · ⁊ horsan þe hyndon ða bryttas ·
⁊ se cristen-dom ƿearð ge-unƿurðod syððan ·
oð agustinus hine eft astealde ·
be gregories lare þæs geleaffullan papan ·
Sy ƿuldor ⁊ lof þam ƿelƿillendan scyppende ⁠152
seðe ure fæderas feondum æt-bræd ·
⁊ to fulluhte gebigde þurh his bydelas. amen.
item alia. (acitofel et absalon.) ”

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“ Þa eode albanus ardlice ðyder · ⁠110
⁊ bæd sona æt gode þæt [sic @ Skeat] he him sealde ƿæter
uppan ðære dune · ⁊ he dyde sƿá ·
Þær arn þa ƿylspryncg æt albanes fotum ⁠113
 men mihton tocnaƿan his mihte ƿið god ·
þa ða se stream arn of ðære sticolan dune · ”

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“ Is nv eac to ƿitenne  man ƿitnað foroft ⁠155
ða arleasan sceaðan ⁊ þa sƿicolan ðeofas ·
ac hí nabbað nan edlean æt þam ælmihtigan gode ·
ac sƿyðor þa ecean ƿitu for heora ƿælhreoƿnysse ·
forðan þe hí leofodon be reaflace sƿa sƿa reðe ƿulfas ·
⁊ þam rihtƿisum ætbrudon heora bigleofan foroft.
Ƿolde huru se earming hine sylfne beþencan · ⁠161
⁊ his synna geandettan mid soðre behreoƿsunge ·
huru ðonne he on bendum bið · ⁊ gebroht to cƿale
sƿa sƿa se sceaða dyde · þe forscylgod hangode
mid þam hælende criste · ⁊ cƿ̅ him to mid geleafan · ”

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