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Dominica III in Quadragesima
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Ad Matutinum
Incipit
Hymnus
1. The fast, as taught by holy lore, We keep in solemn course once more: The fast to all men known, and bound In forty days of yearly round. 2. The law and seers that were of old In diverse ways this Lent foretold, Which Christ, all seasons’ King and Guide, In after ages sanctified. 3. More sparing therefore let us make The words we speak, the food we take, Our sleep and mirth, —and closer barred Be every sense in holy guard. 4. Avoid the evil thoughts that roll Like waters o’er the heedless soul; Nor let the foe occasion find Our souls in slavery to bind. 5. In prayer together let us fall, And cry for mercy, one and all, And weep before the Judge’s feet, And his avenging wrath entreat. 6. Thy grace have we offended sore, By sins, O God, which we deplore; But pour upon us from on high, O pardoning One, thy clemency. 7. Remember thou, though frail we be, That yet thine handiwork are we; Nor let the honour of thy name Be by another put to shame. 8. Forgive the sin that we have wrought; Increase the good that we have sought: That we at length, our wanderings o'er, May please thee here and evermore. 9. Grant O thou Blessed Trinity, Grant, O Essential Unity, That this our fast of forty days May work our profit and thy praise. Amen.
Nocturnus I
Psalmus 1
Blessed is the man * who studieth the law of the Lord.
Blessed is the man who hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners, * nor sat in the chair of pestilence.
- Sed in lege Dómini volúntas ejus, * et in lege ejus meditábitur die ac nocte.
- Et erit tamquam lignum, quod plantátum est secus decúrsus aquárum, * quod fructum suum dabit in témpore suo:
- Et fólium ejus non défluet: * et ómnia quæcúmque fáciet, prosperabúntur.
- Non sic ímpii, non sic: * sed tamquam pulvis, quem prójicit ventus a fácie terræ.
- Ideo non resúrgent ímpii in judício: * neque peccatóres in concílio justórum.
- Quóniam novit Dóminus viam justórum: * et iter impiórum períbit.
- Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.
- Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.
But his will is in the law of the Lord, * and on his law he shall meditate day and night.
And he shall be like a tree which is planted near the running waters, * which shall bring forth its fruit, in due season.
And his leaf shall not fall off: * and all whatsoever he shall do shall prosper.
Not so the wicked, not so: * but like the dust, which the wind driveth from the face of the earth.
Therefore the wicked shall not rise again in judgment: * nor sinners in the council of the just.
For the Lord knoweth the way of the just: * and the way of the wicked shall perish.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Ghost.
As it was in the beginning, is now, * and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Blessed is the man * who studieth the law of the Lord.
Psalmus 2
Serve ye the Lord * with fear: and rejoice unto him with trembling.
Why have the Gentiles raged, * and the people devised vain things?
- Astitérunt reges terræ, et príncipes convenérunt in unum * advérsus Dóminum, et advérsus Christum ejus.
- Dirumpámus víncula eórum: * et projiciámus a nobis jugum ipsórum.
- Qui hábitat in cælis, irridébit eos: * et Dóminus subsannábit eos.
- Tunc loquétur ad eos in ira sua, * et in furóre suo conturbábit eos.
- Ego autem constitútus sum Rex ab eo super Sion montem sanctum ejus, * prǽdicans præcéptum ejus.
- Dóminus dixit ad me: * Fílius meus es tu, ego hódie génui te.
- Póstula a me, et dabo tibi Gentes hereditátem tuam, * et possessiónem tuam términos terræ.
- Reges eos in virga férrea, * et tamquam vas fíguli confrínges eos.
- Et nunc, reges, intellígite: * erudímini, qui judicátis terram.
- Servíte Dómino in timóre: * et exsultáte ei cum tremóre.
- Apprehéndite disciplínam, nequándo irascátur Dóminus, * et pereátis de via justa.
- Cum exárserit in brevi ira ejus: * beáti omnes qui confídunt in eo.
- Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.
- Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.
The kings of the earth stood up, and the princes met together, * against the Lord and against his Christ.
Let us break their bonds asunder: * and let us cast away their yoke from us.
He that dwelleth in heaven shall laugh at them: * and the Lord shall deride them.
Then shall he speak to them in his anger, * and trouble them in his rage.
But I am appointed king by him over Sion his holy mountain, * preaching his commandment.
The Lord hath said to me: * Thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee.
Ask of me, and I will give thee the Gentiles for thy inheritance, * and the utmost parts of the earth for thy possession.
Thou shalt rule them with a rod of iron, * and shalt break them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.
And now, O ye kings, understand: * receive instruction, you that judge the earth.
Serve ye the Lord with fear: * and rejoice unto him with trembling.
Embrace discipline, lest at any time the Lord be angry, * and you perish from the just way.
When his wrath shall be kindled in a short time, * blessed are all they that trust in him.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Ghost.
As it was in the beginning, is now, * and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Serve ye the Lord * with fear: and rejoice unto him with trembling.
Psalmus 3
Arise, * O Lord; save me, O my God.
Why, O Lord, are they multiplied that afflict me? * many are they who rise up against me.
- Multi dicunt ánimæ meæ: * Non est salus ipsi in Deo ejus.
- Tu autem, Dómine, suscéptor meus es, * glória mea, et exáltans caput meum.
- Voce mea ad Dóminum clamávi: * et exaudívit me de monte sancto suo.
- Ego dormívi, et soporátus sum: * et exsurréxi, quia Dóminus suscépit me.
- Non timébo míllia pópuli circumdántis me: * exsúrge, Dómine, salvum me fac, Deus meus.
- Quóniam tu percussísti omnes adversántes mihi sine causa: * dentes peccatórum contrivísti.
- Dómini est salus: * et super pópulum tuum benedíctio tua.
- Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.
- Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.
Many say to my soul: * There is no salvation for him in his God.
But thou, O Lord art my protector, * my glory, and the lifter up of my head.
I have cried to the Lord with my voice: * and he hath heard me from his holy hill.
I have slept and taken my rest: * and I have risen up, because the Lord hath protected me.
I will not fear thousands of the people, surrounding me: * arise, O Lord; save me, O my God.
For thou hast struck all them who are my adversaries without cause: * thou hast broken the teeth of sinners.
Salvation is of the Lord: * and thy blessing is upon thy people.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Ghost.
As it was in the beginning, is now, * and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Arise, * O Lord; save me, O my God.
Psalmus 8
How admirable * is thy name, O Lord, in the whole earth!
O Lord our Lord, * how admirable is thy name in the whole earth!
- Quóniam eleváta est magnificéntia tua, * super cælos.
- Ex ore infántium et lacténtium perfecísti laudem propter inimícos tuos, * ut déstruas inimícum et ultórem.
- Quóniam vidébo cælos tuos, ópera digitórum tuórum: * lunam et stellas, quæ tu fundásti.
- Quid est homo quod memor es ejus? * aut fílius hóminis, quóniam vísitas eum?
- Minuísti eum paulo minus ab Angelis, † glória et honóre coronásti eum: * et constituísti eum super ópera mánuum tuárum.
- Omnia subjecísti sub pédibus ejus, * oves et boves univérsas: ínsuper et pécora campi.
- Vólucres cæli, et pisces maris, * qui perámbulant sémitas maris.
- Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.
- Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.
For thy magnificence is elevated * above the heavens.
Out of the mouth of infants and of sucklings thou hast perfected praise, because of thy enemies, * that thou mayst destroy the enemy and the avenger.
For I will behold thy heavens, the works of thy fingers: * the moon and the stars which thou hast founded.
What is man that thou art mindful of him? * or the son of man that thou visitest him?
Thou hast made him a little less than the angels, thou hast crowned him with glory and honour: * and hast set him over the works of thy hands.
Thou hast subjected all things under his feet, * all sheep and oxen: moreover the beasts also of the fields.
The birds of the air, and the fishes of the sea, * that pass through the paths of the sea.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Ghost.
As it was in the beginning, is now, * and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
How admirable * is thy name, O Lord, in the whole earth!
Psalmus 9 (2,11)
Thou hast sat on the throne * who judgest justice.
I will give praise to thee, O Lord, with my whole heart: * I will relate all thy wonders.
- Lætábor et exsultábo in te: * psallam nómini tuo, Altíssime.
- In converténdo inimícum meum retrórsum: * infirmabúntur, et períbunt a fácie tua.
- Quóniam fecísti judícium meum et causam meam: * sedísti super thronum, qui júdicas justítiam.
- Increpásti Gentes, et périit ímpius: * nomen eórum delésti in ætérnum, et in sǽculum sǽculi.
- Inimíci defecérunt frámeæ in finem: * et civitátes eórum destruxísti.
- Périit memória eórum cum sónitu: * et Dóminus in ætérnum pérmanet.
- Parávit in judício thronum suum: * et ipse judicábit orbem terræ in æquitáte, judicábit pópulos in justítia.
- Et factus est Dóminus refúgium páuperi: * adjútor in opportunitátibus, in tribulatióne.
- Et sperent in te qui novérunt nomen tuum: * quóniam non dereliquísti quæréntes te, Dómine.
- Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.
- Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.
I will be glad and rejoice in thee: * I will sing to thy name, O thou most high.
When my enemy shall be turned back: * they shall be weakened and perish before thy face.
For thou hast maintained my judgment and my cause: * thou hast sat on the throne, who judgest justice.
Thou hast rebuked the Gentiles, and the wicked one hath perished: * thou hast blotted out their name for ever and ever.
The swords of the enemy have failed unto the end: * and their cities thou hast destroyed.
Their memory hath perished with a noise. * But the Lord remaineth for ever.
He hath prepared his throne in judgment: * And he shall judge the world in equity, he shall judge the people in justice.
And the Lord is become a refuge for the poor: * a helper in due time in tribulation.
And let them trust in thee who know thy name: * for thou hast not forsaken them that seek thee, O Lord.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Ghost.
As it was in the beginning, is now, * and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Thou hast sat on the throne * who judgest justice.
Psalmus 9 (12,21)
Arise, O Lord, * let not man prevail.
Sing ye to the Lord, who dwelleth in Sion: * declare his ways among the Gentiles.
- Quóniam requírens sánguinem eórum recordátus est: * non est oblítus clamórem páuperum.
- Miserére mei, Dómine: * vide humilitátem meam de inimícis meis.
- Qui exáltas me de portis mortis, * ut annúntiem omnes laudatiónes tuas in portis fíliæ Sion.
- Exsultábo in salutári tuo: * infíxæ sunt Gentes in intéritu, quem fecérunt.
- In láqueo isto, quem abscondérunt, * comprehénsus est pes eórum.
- Cognoscétur Dóminus judícia fáciens: * in opéribus mánuum suárum comprehénsus est peccátor.
- Convertántur peccatóres in inférnum, * omnes Gentes quæ obliviscúntur Deum.
- Quóniam non in finem oblívio erit páuperis: * patiéntia páuperum non períbit in finem.
- Exsúrge, Dómine, non confortétur homo: * judicéntur Gentes in conspéctu tuo.
- Constítue, Dómine, legislatórem super eos: * ut sciant Gentes quóniam hómines sunt.
- Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.
- Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.
For requiring their blood he hath remembered them: * he hath not forgotten the cry of the poor.
Have mercy on me, O Lord: * see my humiliation which I suffer from my enemies.
Thou that liftest me up from the gates of death, * that I may declare all thy praises in the gates of the daughter of Sion.
I will rejoice in thy salvation: * the Gentiles have stuck fast in the destruction which they have prepared.
Their foot hath been taken * in the very snare which they hid.
The Lord shall be known when he executeth judgments: * the sinner hath been caught in the works of his own hands.
The wicked shall be turned into hell, * all the nations that forget God.
For the poor man shall not be forgotten to the end: * the patience of the poor shall not perish for ever.
Arise, O Lord, let not man be strengthened: * let the Gentiles be judged in thy sight.
Appoint, O Lord, a lawgiver over them: * that the Gentiles may know themselves to be but men.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Ghost.
As it was in the beginning, is now, * and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Arise, O Lord, * let not man prevail.
Psalmus 9 (22,32)
Why, O Lord, * hast thou retired afar off? ‡
Quæ non repetitur in Psalmo
Why, O Lord, hast thou retired afar off? * why dost thou slight us in our wants, in the time of trouble?
- Dum supérbit ímpius, incénditur pauper: * comprehendúntur in consíliis quibus cógitant.
- Quóniam laudátur peccátor in desidériis ánimæ suæ: * et iníquus benedícitur.
- Exacerbávit Dóminum peccátor, * secúndum multitúdinem iræ suæ non quæret.
- Non est Deus in conspéctu ejus: * inquinátæ sunt viæ illíus in omni témpore.
- Auferúntur judícia tua a fácie ejus: * ómnium inimicórum suórum dominábitur.
- Dixit enim in corde suo: * Non movébor a generatióne in generatiónem sine malo.
- Cujus maledictióne os plenum est, et amaritúdine, et dolo: * sub lingua ejus labor et dolor.
- Sedet in insídiis cum divítibus in occúltis: * ut interfíciat innocéntem.
- Oculi ejus in páuperem respíciunt: * insidiátur in abscóndito, quasi leo in spelúnca sua.
- Insidiátur ut rápiat páuperem: * rápere páuperem, dum áttrahit eum.
- In láqueo suo humiliábit eum: * inclinábit se, et cadet, cum dominátus fúerit páuperum.
- Dixit enim in corde suo: Oblítus est Deus, * avértit fáciem suam ne vídeat in finem.
- Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.
- Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.
Whilst the wicked man is proud, the poor is set on fire: * they are caught in the counsels which they devise.
For the sinner is praised in the desires of his soul: * and the unjust man is blessed.
The sinner hath provoked the Lord, * according to the multitude of his wrath he will not seek him.
God is not before his eyes: * his ways are filthy at all times.
Thy judgments are removed from his sight: * he shall rule over all his enemies.
For he hath said in his heart: * I shall not be moved from generation to generation, and shall be without evil.
His mouth is full of cursing, and of bitterness, and of deceit: * under his tongue are labour and sorrow.
He sitteth in ambush with the rich, in private places, * that he may kill the innocent.
His eyes are upon the poor man: * he lieth in wait, in secret, like a lion in his den.
He lieth in ambush, that he may catch the poor man: * so catch the poor, whilst he draweth him to him.
In his net he will bring him down, * he will crouch and fall, when he shall have power over the poor.
For he hath said in his heart: God hath forgotten, * he hath turned away his face, not to see to the end.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Ghost.
As it was in the beginning, is now, * and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Why, O Lord, * hast thou retired afar off? ‡
Psalmus 9 (33,39)
Arise, O Lord God, * let thy hand be exalted. ‡
Quæ non repetitur in Psalmo
Arise, O Lord God, let thy hand be exalted: * forget not the poor.
- Propter quid irritávit ímpius Deum? * dixit enim in corde suo: Non requíret.
- Vides quóniam tu labórem et dolórem consíderas: * ut tradas eos in manus tuas.
- Tibi derelíctus est pauper: * órphano tu eris adjútor.
- Cóntere bráchium peccatóris et malígni: * quærétur peccátum illíus, et non inveniétur.
- Dóminus regnábit in ætérnum, et in sǽculum sǽculi: * períbitis, Gentes, de terra illíus.
- Desidérium páuperum exaudívit Dóminus: * præparatiónem cordis eórum audívit auris tua.
- Judicáre pupíllo et húmili, * ut non appónat ultra magnificáre se homo super terram.
- Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.
- Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.
Wherefore hath the wicked provoked God? * for he hath said in his heart: He will not require it.
Thou seest it, for thou considerest labour and sorrow: * that thou mayst deliver them into thy hands.
To thee is the poor man left: * thou wilt be a helper to the orphan.
Break thou the arm of the sinner and of the malignant: * his sin shall be sought, and shall not be found.
The Lord shall reign to eternity, yea, for ever and ever: * ye Gentiles shall perish from his land.
The Lord hath heard the desire of the poor: * thy ear hath heard the preparation of their heart.
To judge for the fatherless and for the humble, * that man may no more presume to magnify himself upon earth.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Ghost.
As it was in the beginning, is now, * and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Arise, O Lord God, * let thy hand be exalted. ‡
Psalmus 10
The Lord is just * and He hath loved justice.
In the Lord I put my trust: how then do you say to my soul: * Get thee away from hence to the mountain, like a sparrow?
- Quóniam ecce peccatóres intendérunt arcum, † paravérunt sagíttas suas in pháretra, * ut sagíttent in obscúro rectos corde.
- Quóniam quæ perfecísti, destruxérunt: * justus autem quid fecit?
- Dóminus in templo sancto suo, * Dóminus in cælo sedes ejus.
- Oculi ejus in páuperem respíciunt: * pálpebræ ejus intérrogant fílios hóminum.
- Dóminus intérrogat justum et ímpium: * qui autem díligit iniquitátem, odit ánimam suam.
- Pluet super peccatóres láqueos: * ignis, et sulphur, et spíritus procellárum pars cálicis eórum.
- Quóniam justus Dóminus, et justítias diléxit: * æquitátem vidit vultus ejus.
- Glória Patri, et Fílio, * et Spirítui Sancto.
- Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, * et in sǽcula sæculórum. Amen.
For, lo, the wicked have bent their bow: they have prepared their arrows in the quiver, * to shoot in the dark the upright of heart.
For they have destroyed the things which thou hast made: * but what has the just man done?
The Lord is in his holy temple, * the Lord’s throne is in heaven.
His eyes look on the poor man: * his eyelids examine the sons of men.
The Lord trieth the just and the wicked: * but he that loveth iniquity, hateth his own soul.
He shall rain snares upon sinners: * fire and brimstone, and storms of winds, shall be the portion of their cup.
For the Lord is just, and hath loved justice: * his countenance hath beheld righteousness.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Ghost.
As it was in the beginning, is now, * and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
The Lord is just * and He hath loved justice.
Versus
Pater
Pater noster, qui es in cælis, sanctificétur nomen tuum: advéniat regnum tuum: fiat volúntas tua, sicut in cælo et in terra. Panem nostrum cotidiánum da nobis hódie: et dimítte nobis débita nostra, sicut et nos dimíttimus debitóribus nostris:
℣. Et ne nos indúcas in tentatiónem:
℟. Sed líbera nos a malo. Absolutio. Exáudi, Dómine Iesu Christe, preces servórum tuórum, et miserére nobis: Qui cum Patre et Spíritu Sancto vivis et regnas in sǽcula sæculórum.
℟. Amen.
Ille nos benedícat, qui sine fine vivit et regnat.
De libro Génesis
Gen 37:2-10
Ioseph, cum sédecim esset annórum, pascébat gregem cum frátribus suis adhuc puer: et erat cum fíliis Balæ et Zelphæ uxórum patris sui: accusavítque fratres suos apud patrem crímine péssimo. Israël autem diligébat Ioseph super omnes fílios suos, eo quod in senectúte genuísset eum: fecítque ei túnicam polýmitam. Vidéntes autem fratres eius quod a patre plus cunctis fíliis amarétur, óderant eum, nec póterant ei quidquam pacífice loqui. Accidit quoque ut visum sómnium reférret frátribus suis: quæ causa maióris ódii seminárium fuit. Dixítque ad eos: Audíte sómnium meum quod vidi: Putábam nos ligáre manípulos in agro: et quasi consúrgere manípulum meum, et stare, vestrósque manípulos circumstántes adoráre manípulum meum. Respondérunt fratres eius: Numquid rex noster eris? aut subiciémur ditióni tuæ? Hæc ergo causa somniórum atque sermónum, invídiæ et ódii fómitem ministrávit. Aliud quoque vidit sómnium, quod narrans frátribus, ait: Vidi per sómnium, quasi solem, et lunam, et stellas úndecim adoráre me. Quod cum patri suo, et frátribus retulísset, increpávit eum pater suus, et dixit: Quid sibi vult hoc sómnium quod vidísti? num ego et mater tua, et fratres tui adorábimus te super terram?
And these are his generations: Joseph, when he was sixteen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren, being but a boy: and he was with the sons of Bala and of Zelpha his father's wives and he accused his brethren to his father of a most wicked crime. Now Israel loved Joseph above all his sons, because he had him in his old age: and he made him a coat of diverse colours. And his brethren seeing that he was loved by his father, more than all his sons, hated him, and could not speak peaceably to him. Now it fell out also that he told his brethren a dream, that he had dreamed: which occasioned them to hate him the more. And he said to them: Hear my dream which I dreamed. I thought we were binding sheaves in the field: and my sheaf arose as it were, and stood, and your sheaves standing about, bowed down before my sheaf. His brethren answered Shalt thou be our king? or shall we be subject to thy dominion? Therefore this matter of his dreams and words ministered nourishment to their envy and hatred. He dreamed also another dream, which he told his brethren, saying: I saw in a dream, as it were the sun, and the moon, and eleven stars worshipping me. And when he had told this to his father and brethren, his father rebuked him, and said: What meaneth this dream that thou hast dreamed? shall I and thy mother, and thy brethren worship thee upon the earth?
Divínum auxílium máneat semper nobíscum.
Gen 37:11-20
Invidébant ei ígitur fratres sui: pater vero rem tácitus considerábat. Cumque fratres illíus in pascéndis grégibus patris moraréntur in Sichem, Dixit ad eum Israël: Fratres tui pascunt oves in Síchimis: veni, mittam te ad eos. Quo respondénte, Præsto sum, ait ei: Vade, et vide si cuncta próspera sint erga fratres tuos, et pécora: et renúntia mihi quid agátur. Missus de valle Hebron, venit in Sichem: Invenítque eum vir errántem in agro, et interrogávit quid quǽreret. At ille respóndit: Fratres meos quæro: índica mihi ubi pascant greges. Dixítque ei vir: Recessérunt de loco isto: audívi autem eos dicéntes: Eámus in Dóthain. Perréxit ergo Ioseph post fratres suos, et invénit eos in Dóthain. Qui cum vidíssent eum procul, ántequam accéderet ad eos, cogitavérunt illum occídere: Et mútuo loquebántur: Ecce somniátor venit: Veníte, occidámus eum, et mittámus in cistérnam véterem: dicemúsque: Fera péssima devorávit eum: et tunc apparébit quid illi prosint sómnia sua.
His brethren therefore envied him: but his father considered the thing with himself. And when his brethren abode in Sichem feeding their father's flocks, Israel said to him thy brethren feed the sheep in Sichem: come, I will send thee to them. And when he answered: I am ready: he said to him: Go, and see if all things be well with thy brethren, and the cattle: and bring me word again what is doing. So being sent from the vale of Hebron, he came to Sichem: And a man found him there wandering in the field, and asked what he sought. But he answered: I seek my brethren; tell me where they feed the flocks. And the man said to him: They are departed from this place: for I heard them say: Let us go to Dothain. And Joseph went forward after his brethren, and found them in Dothain. And when they saw him afar off, before he came nigh them, they thought to kill him. And said one to another: Behold the dreamer cometh. Come, let us kill him, and cast him into some old pit and we will say Some evil beast hath devoured him: and then it shall appear what his dreams avail him.
Audiens autem hoc Ruben, nitebátur liberáre eum de mánibus eórum, et dicébat: Non interficiátis ánimam eius, nec effundátis sánguinem: sed proícite eum in cistérnam hanc, quæ est in solitúdine, manúsque vestras serváte innóxias: hoc autem dicébat, volens erípere eum de mánibus eórum, et réddere patri suo. Conféstim ígitur ut pervénit ad fratres suos, nudavérunt eum túnica talári et polýmita: Miserúntque eum in cistérnam véterem, quæ non habébat aquam. Et sedéntes ut coméderent panem, vidérunt Ismaëlítas viatóres veníre de Gálaad, et camélos eórum portántes arómata, et resínam, et stacten in Ægýptum. Dixit ergo Iudas frátribus suis: Quid nobis prodest si occidérimus fratrem nostrum, et celavérimus sánguinem ipsíus? Mélius est ut venundétur Ismaëlítis, et manus nostræ non polluántur: frater enim et caro nostra est. Acquievérunt fratres sermónibus illíus. Et prætereúntibus Madianítis negotiatóribus, extrahéntes eum de cistérna, vendidérunt eum Ismaëlítis, vigínti argénteis: qui duxérunt eum in Ægýptum.
And Ruben hearing this, endeavoured to deliver him out of their hands, and said: Do not take away his life, nor shed his blood: but cast him into this pit, that is in the wilderness, and keep your hands harmless: now he said this, being desirous to deliver him out of their hands and to restore him to his father. And as soon as he came to his brethren, they forthwith stript him of his outside coat, that was of diverse colours: And cast him into an old pit, where there was no water. And sitting down to eat bread, they saw some Ismaelites on their way coming from Calaad, with their camels, carrying spices, and balm, and myrrh to Egypt. And Juda said to his brethren: What will it profit us to kill our brother, and conceal his blood? It is better that he be sold to the Ismaelites, and that our hands be not defiled: for he is our brother and our flesh. His brethren agreed to his words. And when the Madianite merchants passed by, they drew him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ismaelites, for twenty pieces of silver: and they led him into Egypt.
Gloria omittitur:
Per evangélica dicta, deleántur nostra delícta.
Léctio sancti Evangélii secúndum Lucam
Luc 11:14-28
In illo témpore: Erat Iesus eíciens dæmónium, et illud erat mutum. Et cum eiecísset dæmónium, locútus est mutus, et admirátæ sunt turbæ. Et réliqua.
At that time, Jesus was casting out a devil, and the same was dumb: and when he had cast out the devil, the dumb spoke: and the multitudes were in admiration at it. And so on.
Lib. 4, cap. 48, in cap. 11 Lucæ
Dæmoníacus iste apud Matthǽum non solum mutus, sed et cæcus fuísse narrátur: curatúsque dícitur a Dómino, ita ut loquerétur, et vidéret. Tria ergo signa simul in uno hómine perpetráta sunt: cæcus videt, mutus lóquitur, posséssus a dǽmone liberátur. Quod et tunc quidem carnáliter factum est, sed et cotídie complétur in conversióne credéntium: ut, expúlso primum dǽmone, fídei lumen aspíciant; deínde ad laudes Dei tacéntia prius ora laxéntur. Quidam autem ex eis dixérunt: in Beélzebub príncipe dæmoniórum éicit dæmónia. Non hæc áliqui de turba, sed pharisǽi calumniabántur, et scribæ, sicut álii Evangelístæ testántur.
We read in Matthew (xii. 22) that the devil, by which this poor creature was possessed, was not only dumb, but also blind; and that, when he was healed by the Lord, he saw as well as spake. Three miracles, therefore, were performed on this one man; the blind saw, the dumb spake, and the possessed was delivered. This mighty work was then indeed wrought carnally, but it is still wrought spiritually in the conversion of believers, when the devil is cast out of them, so that their eyes see the light of faith, and the lips, that before were dumb, are opened that their mouth may show forth the praise of God. But some of them said: He casteth out devils through Beelzebub, the chief of the devils. These some were not of the multitude, but liars among the Pharisees and Scribes, as we are told by the other Evangelist.
Oratio
Orémus.
Quǽsumus, omnípotens Deus, vota humílium réspice: † atque ad defensiónem nostram, déxteram tuæ maiestátis exténde.
Per Dóminum nostrum Iesum Christum, Fílium tuum: † qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, * per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
We beeseech thee, almighty God, look upon the hearty desires of thy humble servants, and stretch forth the right hand of thy Majesty to be our defense against all our enemies.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
Conclusio
