Ælfric

Name: Ælfric's Lives of Saints — The Maccabees
Author: Ælfric

Ælfric's Lives of Saints — The Maccabees

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“Ælfric's Lives of Saints — The Maccabees”, is a work by Ælfric. It explores elements such as þone, þone ælmihtigan and folce.

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Ælfric, Ælfric's Lives of Saints — The Maccabees

“ Þa cƿ̅ heliodorus ·⁠802
Gif ðu hæfst ænigne feond send þone to þam feo ·⁠802
⁊ he bið ƿel besƿungen · oððe geƿisslice dead ·
forðan ðe se ælmihtiga god mundað þa stoƿe ·
⁊ þa slihð ⁊ gescynt þe þær sceaðian ƿillað ·
Oft is gesƿutelod hu god gescylde  folc⁠806
ƿið heora ƿiþer-sacan gif hi ƿurðodon hine ·
⁊ sƿa oft sƿa hi gebugon fram his biggengcum ahƿar ·
þonne ƿurdon hi gescynde · ⁊ sƿyðe geƿitnode ·
Sy ƿuldor ⁊ lof þam ƿel-ƿillendan gode ·⁠810
á on ecnysse ƿe cƿeþað · Amen.
Item alia.
qui sunt oratores, [sic @ Skeat] laboratores, [sic @ Skeat] bellatores. ”

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Ælfric, Ælfric's Lives of Saints — The Maccabees

“ Eft on ðam oþrū geare geanlæhte lisias⁠362
fif ⁊ sixtig þusenda fyrdendra þegena ·
⁊ ƿolde ofer-feohtan  iudeisce folc ·
Iudas ða machabeus micclū on god truƿode ·⁠365
⁊ ferde him togeanes mid þam folce þe he hæfde ·
 ƿæron tƿelf þusend ƿigendra manna ·
⁊ iudas hine gebæd þa ⁊ bletsode his scyppend ·
gebletsod eart ðu ælmihtig israhela hælend ·
þu ðe to-bryttest iu þone breman here
on dauides handum · to-brýt nu ðas hæðenan
on þines folces handum · ⁊ mid fyrhte ge-egsa ·
alege hi mid sƿurdum ðe lufigendra
 ealle þe herian · þe gehyrað þinne naman · ”

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“ Þa noldon hi sume gelyfan  he soð god ƿære ·⁠520
ac syrƿdon embe his lif · sƿa sƿa he sylf geðafode;
Ƿæron sƿa-þeah manega of þam [man] cynne · gode ·⁠522
ge on ðære ealdan · ǽ · ge eac on þære niƿan ·
heah-fæderas · ⁊ ƿitegan · ⁊ halige apostolas ·
⁊ fela ðusenda þe folgiað criste ·
þeah þe hi sume ƿunian ƿiðer-ƿerde oþ þis ·
Hi sceolon sƿa-ðeah ealle on ende gelyfan ·⁠527
ac ðær losiað to fela on þam fyrste betƿux ·
for heora heard-heortnysse ƿið þone heofonlican hælend · ”

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Ælfric, Ælfric's Lives of Saints — The Maccabees

“ Ƿunodon ða on sibbe sume hƿile æfter ðam ·⁠642
⁊ iudas þa sende mid sibbe to rome
gecorene ærendracan ƿolde [cuðlæcan] ƿið hi ·
forðan þe romanisce ƿitan ƿæron ða mihtige ·
⁊ rædfæste on ƿeorcum · ⁊ ofer-ƿunnan heora fynd ·
[VIIII.]
Hit ƿearð gecydd syððan þam cynincge demetrio⁠647
 nicanor feol ⁊ eall his folc mid hī ·
þa ƿolde he git sendan ⁊ ofslean þa iudeiscan ·
⁊ funde ða bachidem se ƿæs mid bealuƿe afylled ·
⁊ alchimum mid him þone arleasan sacerd ·
⁊ sende hi mid ge-fylce to iudeiscū folce · ”

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Ælfric, Ælfric's Lives of Saints — The Maccabees

“ Þa abeah seo modor | to hire bearne ⁊ cƿ̅ ·⁠174
Gemiltsa me min sunu ic ðe to men gebær ·⁠175
beseoh nu to heofonū · ⁊ besceaƿa þas eorðan ·
⁊ ealle ða ge-sceafta  him on synd nu ·
⁊ under-stand be ðam hu se ælmihtiga god
hi ealle gesceop butan antimbre of nahte ·
⁊ ne forhta ðu ana for ðysum feondlican cƿellere ·
ac under-foh þone deað sƿa sƿa ðine gebroðra dydon ·
 ic ðe eft under-fó on eadignysse mid heom ·
Þa clypode se iungling to ðam cƿellerū þus · ⁊ cƿ̅.⁠183 ”

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“ And [sic @ Skeat] se cynincg ƿundrode ⁊ þa þe mid hī ƿæron⁠140
ðæs cnihtes anrædnysse  he ða cƿylmincge | forseah
Æfter ðyses forð-siðe · hi ge-fengon ðone feorðan ·⁠142
⁊ eall-sƿa getintregedon · ac he anrædlice cƿ̅.
Selre us is to sƿeltenne ⁊ soðlice anbidian⁠144
þæs ecan æristes · æt ðam ælmihtigan gode ·
ac ðe ne bið nan ærist to ðam ecan life ·
Se ða ge-endode mid anrædum geleafan ·⁠147
⁊ hi gefengon to dreccenne þone fiftan broðor ·
He beseah ða to ðam cynincge · ⁊ cƿ̅. ”

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Ælfric, Ælfric's Lives of Saints — The Maccabees

“ Hƿæt ða færlice comon fif englas of heofonum ·⁠490
ridende on horsum mid gyldenum gerædum ·
⁊ tƿægen þæra engla on tƿa healfe iudan
feohtende ƿæron · ⁊ hine eac beƿerodon ·
⁊ hi ealle fif fuhton mid iudan
sceotiende heora flán ⁊ fyrene ligettas
on ða hæðenan leoda · oð  hi licgende sƿulton
tƿentig þusend manna ⁊ six hund ofslagene ·
Timotheus þa fleah mid fyrhte for-numen⁠498
into anre byrig · ⁊ him æfter ferde
iudas mid fultume · ⁊ fuhton ƿið-utan
oð  hi ofer-ƿunnon ⁊ geƿyldon þa burh ·
⁊ timotheum acƿealdon þær ðær he becropen ƿæs ·
⁊ his broðor samod mid sƿurdes ecge · ”

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“ Ðas cumað to us sƿylce hi cenran syndon⁠312
⁊ ƿillað us fordon · ⁊ aƿestan ure land ·
ƿe soðlice feohtað for us sylfe ƿið hi ·
⁊ for godes · ǽ · ⁊ god hi eac fordeð
ætforan ure gesihðe · ne forhtige ge nates hƿón ·
Æfter ðyssere spræce hi eodon to-gædere ·⁠317
⁊ iudas ða afligde þone fore-sædan seron
⁊ his here samod mid sƿyðlicre bylde ·
⁊ þær ƿurdon ofslagene eahta hund ƿera ·
⁊ ða oðre ætflugon to philistea lande ·
Iudan ege ða asprang ƿide geond land ·⁠322
⁊ his gebroðra oga ofer ealle ða hæðenan ·
⁊ ealle þeoda spræcon hu ðegenlice hi fuhton · ”

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“ Sƿa sƿa ða iudeiscan þe urne drihten forseoð ·⁠069
⁊ his godspel bodunge to bysmre habbað
syndon unclæne · ⁊ criste andsæte
þeah ðe hi moyses · ǽ · on heora muðe ƿealcon ·
⁊ nellað under-standan butan  steaflice ⁊git ·
Fela ƿæron forbodene godes folce on ðære · ǽ ·⁠074
| þe nu syndon clæne æfter cristes to-cyme ·
siððan paulus cƿ̅ to þam cristenum ðus ·
Omnia munda mundis. ”

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“ Se ƿearð eac ongebroht  he ofslean ƿolde⁠549
þa geleaffullan iudei · þe gelyfdon ða on god ·
Hi gelyfdon þa on þa ealdan ƿisan · on þone ælmihtigan god⁠551
þeah ðe hi sume ƿið-socon siðþan þone hælend ·
⁊ eac sƿa ofslogon sƿa sƿa he sylf ƿolde ·
Hƿæt ða eupatór antioches sunu⁠554
gegaderode his fyrde fyrran ⁊ nean ·
⁊ sende hund-teontig þusenda gangendra manna ·
⁊ tƿentig þusenda gehorsedra manna ·
⁊ þrittig ylpas ealle getemode ·
⁊ to ƿige geƿenode mid ƿundorlicum cræfte · ”

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“ And [sic @ Skeat] ða synd unclæne þe heora cudu ne ceoƿað ·⁠050
for-ðan þe hi getacniað þa ðe tela nellað ·
ne nellað leornian hƿæt gode leof sy ·
ne on heora mode ƿealcan þæs hælendes beboda ·
⁊ syndon for-ðy unclæne sƿa sƿa ða forcuðan nytenu ·
Þa nytenu synd clæne þe to-cleofað heora claƿa⁠055
⁊ heora cudu ceoƿað · hi getacniað þa geleaffullan
on godes gelaðunge · þe mid geleafan underfoð
þa ealdan gecyðnysse ⁊ cristes gesetnysse ·
 is seo ealde · ǽ · ⁊ seo niƿe gecyðnyss ·
⁊ ceoƿað godes beboda symle mid smeagunge · ”

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Ælfric, Ælfric's Lives of Saints — The Maccabees

“ Gif hƿa nu ƿundrige hu hit geƿurþan mihte⁠508
 englas sceoldon ridan on gerædedum horsum ·
þonne ƿite he to soþan  us secgað gehƿǽr
ða halgan godes béc þe ne magon beon lease ·
 englas oft comon cuðlice to mannū
sƿilce on horse ridende · sƿa sƿa ƿe hér rehton · ”

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