King Alfred's Old English Version of St. Augustine's Soliloquies: Turned Into Modern English |
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abideth Alfred's Old English Alypius art the highest ask thee BAYLOR UNIVERSITY believe better body chastity Christ clearly cometh creatures Doomsday Dost thou doth doubtest eternal evil faith find Thee forsake hadst hath honor Honorius Howbeit immortal intelligible light King Alfred's Old know that thou know whether thou knowest that thou knoweth look looketh loveth men's souls mind's eyes naught never Old English Version Ph.D promised rightly saidst say to thee seek seemeth to thee shineth shouldst sorrow sound eyes spake suppose teach tell thee that thou Theodosius thou art thou canst thou desirest thou dost thou formerly thou hast thou knowest thou lovest thou sayest thou teachest Thou understandest Thou who hast thou wilt thou wishest thou wouldst live three things thy friends thy mind thyself torments truly truth understand Version of St wisdom wise Wishest thou wonder why thou wouldst know
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Page 46 - Howbeit, the good, then, who have full freedom, see both their friends and their enemies, just as in this life lords and rulers often see together both their friends and their enemies. They see them alike and know them alike, albeit they do not love them alike. And again the righteous, after they are out of this world, shall recall very often both the good and the evil which they had in this world, and rejoice very much that they did not depart from their Lord's will, either in easy or in hidden...
Page 45 - Nay, nay ; they have the books of the holy Fathers with them on earth. Let them study them and believe them. If they do not believe them, neither will they believe Lazarus, though he come to them.' Now we can hear that both the departed good and the wicked know all that happeneth in this world, and also in the world in which they are. They know the greatest part — though they do not know it all before Doomsday — and they have very clear remembrance of their kin and friends in the world. And...
Page 45 - ... shall know what they wish to know, either in this present life or in that to come ? Why supposest thou that they have no memory of their friends in this world, inasmuch as the wicked Dives feared the same torments for his friends in hell as he had merited ? It was he whom Christ spake of in His gospel3 that besought Abraham to send Lazarus the beggar to him that he, with his little finger, might place a drop of water on his tongue and therewith cool his thirst. Then said Abraham : ' Nay, my son...