{"sedulius-carmen-paschale/0.1":{"o":"Paschales quicumque dapes conuiua requiris,\nDignatus nostris accubitare toris,\nPone supercilium si te cognoscis amicum,\nNec quaeras opus hic codicis artificis:\nSed modicae contentus adi sollemnia mensae\nPlusque libens animo quam satiare cibo.\nAut si magnarum caperis dulcedine rerum\nDiuitiasque magis deliciosus amas,\nNobilium nitidis doctorum uescere cenis,\nQuorum multiplices nec numerantur opes.\nIllic inuenies quidquid mare nutrit edendum,\nQuidquid terra creat, quidquid ad astra uolat.\nCerea gemmatis flauescunt mella canistris\nConlucentque suis aurea uasa fauis.\nAt nos exiguum de paupere carpsimus horto,\nRubra quod adpositum testa ministrat, holus.","t":"Whoever you are, guest, who look for the Easter feast\nand have deigned to recline at our couches,\nput away your haughty brow, if you know yourself a friend,\nand do not look here for the work of an artful book:\nbut, content with a modest table, come to its solemn meal\nand gladly satisfy your spirit rather than your appetite.\nOr if you are taken with the sweetness of grand things\nand, a lover of luxuries, prefer riches,\nfeed at the elegant dinners of noble, learned men,\nwhose manifold wealth cannot even be counted.\nThere you will find whatever the sea nourishes to eat,\nwhatever the earth produces, whatever flies to the stars.\nWaxen honey grows golden in jeweled baskets,\nand golden vessels shine with their own honeycombs.\nBut we have picked from our poor garden a little\nvegetable, which a red earthenware dish serves up.","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 0.1 (CSEL 10:15lines 1–16; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/0-1)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/1.116":{"o":"iusti mens sancta uiri! pietate remota\nPlus pietatis habens contempsit uulnera nati\nAmplexus praecepta Dei, typicique cruoris\nAuxilio uentura docet, quod sanguine Christi\nHumana pro gente pius occumberet agnus.\nLoth Sodomae fugiente chaos, dum respicit uxor,\nIn statuam mutata salis stupefacta remansit,\nAd poenam conuersa suam: quia nemo retrorsum,\nNoxia contempti uitans discrimina mundi,\nAspiciens saluandus erit, nec debet arator\nDignum opus exercens uultum in sua terga referre.\nIgnibus innocuis flagrans apparuit olim\nNon ardens ardere rubus, nec iuncta calori\nMateries alimenta dabat, nec torrida uiuens\nSensit damna frutex, sed amici fomitis aestu\nFrondea blanditae lambebant robora flammae.\nMitis in inmitem uirga est animata draconem,\nPer flexos sinuata globos linguisque trisulcis\nSquamea colla tumens inimicos ore chelydros\nSorbuit et proprii redit in uirgulta rigoris.\nPeruia diuisi patuerunt caerula ponti\nIn geminum reuoluta latus, nudataque tellus\nCognatis spoliatur aquis, ac turba pedestris\nIntrat in absentis pelagi mare, perque profundum\nSicca peregrinas stupuerunt marmora plantas.","t":"O holy mind of the just man! Setting aside fatherly love,\nhaving more of piety, he made light of his son's wounds,\nembracing God's commands, and, by the help of figurative\nblood, teaches what is to come: that by the blood of Christ\nthe dutiful Lamb would die for the human race.\nAs Lot fled the chaos of Sodom, his wife, looking back,\nwas changed into a statue of salt and remained stupefied,\nturned to her punishment: because no one who looks backward,\nwhile escaping the harmful dangers of the despised world,\nwill be saved, nor should the ploughman, doing worthy work,\nturn his face back over his shoulders.\nOnce a bush appeared, blazing with harmless fire,\nburning without being burnt, nor did its matter, joined to the heat,\ngive fuel, nor did the living shrub feel\nthe loss of scorching, but in the heat of a friendly tinder\ncaressing flames licked its leafy wood.\nThe gentle rod was quickened into a savage serpent,\nwinding in curving coils, and, with triple-forked tongues,\nswelling its scaly neck, it swallowed the hostile snakes with its mouth\nand returned to the stiffness of its own wood.\nThe blue waters of the divided sea lay open as a path,\nrolled back on either side, and the bared earth\nis stripped of its kindred waters, and a throng on foot\nenters the sea of an absent ocean, and on the deep floor\nthe dry marble wondered at strangers' feet.","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 1.116 (CSEL 10:24lines 116–140–26; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/1-116)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/1.141":{"o":"Mutauit natura uiam, mediumque per aequor\nIngrediens populus rude iam baptisma gerebat,\nCui dux Christus erat, clamat nam lectio: multas\nVox Domini super extat aquas; uox denique uerbum est.\nVerbum Christus adest, geminae qui consona legis\nTestamenta regens ueterem patefecit abyssum,\nVt doctrina sequens planis incederet aruis.\nQuid referam innumeras caelesti pane cateruas\nAngelicos sumpsisse cibos, nimbisque superni\nNectaris aeria populum dulcedine pastum\nIn pluuiis habuisse dapes et in imbribus escas?\nRursus in exustis sitiens exercitus aruis,\nQua nimium loca sicca, diu qua terra negatis\nAegra iacebat aquis, qua spes ablata bibendi\nViuendique fuit, subitas arente metallo\nHausit aquas, sterilique latex de rupe manauit,\nEt ieiuna nouum uomuerunt marmora potum.\nHis igitur iam sacra tribus dans munera rebus,\nChristus erat panis, Christus petra, Christus in undis.\nAngelicis tremefacta minis adfatur asella\nSessorem per uerba suum, linguaque rudenti\nEdidit humanas animal pecuale loquellas.","t":"Nature changed its course, and the people, going through\nthe midst of the sea, already bore a rudimentary baptism,\nwith Christ as their leader; for the reading cries out: “The voice\nof the Lord is over many waters”; the voice, then, is the Word.\nChrist the Word is present, who, governing the harmonious testaments\nof the twofold law, opened up the old abyss,\nso that the teaching that followed might walk on level fields.\nWhy should I tell how countless troops took the food of angels\nin heavenly bread, and how the people, fed from the clouds\nwith the airy sweetness of nectar from above,\nhad banquets in the rain and food in the showers?\nAgain the thirsting army, in the scorched fields,\nwhere the places were too dry, where the land lay long\nsick for lack of water, where all hope of drinking\nand of living was gone, drew sudden waters from the parched rock,\nand a stream flowed from the barren crag,\nand the fasting stones poured out a new drink.\nGiving sacred gifts in these three things, then,\nChrist was the bread, Christ the rock, Christ in the waves.\nThe she-ass, terrified by the angel's threats, addresses\nher rider in words, and with braying tongue\na beast of the herd uttered human speech.","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 1.141 (CSEL 10:26lines 141–162–27; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/1-141)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/1.163":{"o":"Sol stetit ad Gabaon mediique cacumine caeli\nFixit anhelantem dilato uespere lucem,\nInsolitus frenare diem, nec luna cucurrit\nOrdine pigra suo, donec populantibus armis\nFeruidus ingentem gladius consumeret hostem\nConiurante polo: iam tunc famulata uidebant\nSidera uenturum praemisso nomine Iesum.\nHeliam corui quondam pauere ministri\nPraebentes sine more dapes, alesque rapinis\nDeditus atque auido saturans caua guttura rostro\nTradidit inlaesam ieiunis morsibus escam.\nNunc bonus Heliae, qui perfidus antea Noe,\nAbluit in terris quidquid deliquit in undis.\nPlenus at ille Deo postquam miracula terris\nPlura dedit meritisque suis succedere dignum\nHeredem propriae fecit uirtutis amicum,\nAurea flammigeris euectus in astra quadrigis,\nQua leuis aerios non exprimit orbita sulcos,\nSidereum penetrauit iter curruque corusco\nDexteriora petens spatio maiore triumphum\nDuxit et humani metam non contigit aeui.\nQuam bene fulminei praelucens semita caeli\nConuenit Heliae! meritoque et nomine fulgens\nHac ope dignus erat: nam si sermonis Achini\nVna per accentum mutetur littera, sol est.","t":"The sun stood still at Gibeon and fixed its panting light\nat the summit of mid-heaven, evening delayed,\nunused to reining in the day, nor did the moon run\nsluggish in its course, until the burning sword with plundering arms\nconsumed the vast enemy, the sky conspiring:\nalready then the serving stars saw Jesus to come,\nhis name sent on before.\nOnce ravens as ministers fed Elijah,\nbringing him meals without fail, and the bird given to plunder,\nthat fills its hollow throat with greedy beak,\nhanded over food untouched by hungry bites.\nNow good to Elijah, the bird that was once faithless to Noah\nwashed away on land whatever wrong it did on the waters.\nBut he, full of God, after he had given the world many miracles\nand made his friend the heir of his own power,\nworthy to succeed to his merits,\ncarried up to the golden stars in a flaming four-horse chariot,\nwhere the light wheel presses no furrows in the air,\npierced the starry path and, with flashing chariot\nseeking the regions on the right, led his triumph over a greater course\nand did not reach the goal of human life.\nHow well the shining path of the flashing heaven\nsuits Elijah! Gleaming in merit and in name,\nhe was worthy of this help: for if in the Achaean tongue\none letter is changed by its accent, it is “sun.”","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 1.163 (CSEL 10:28lines 163–187–29; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/1-163)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/1.17":{"o":"Cum sua gentiles studeant figmenta poetae\nGrandisonis pompare modis, tragicoque boatu\nRidiculoue Geta seu qualibet arte canendi\nSaeua nefandarum renouent contagia rerum\nEt scelerum monumenta canant, rituque magistro\nPlurima Niliacis tradant mendacia biblis:\nCur ego, Dauiticis adsuetus cantibus odas\nCordarum resonare decem sanctoque uerenter\nStare choro et placidis caelestia psallere uerbis,\nClara salutiferi taceam miracula Christi?\nCum possim manifesta loqui, Dominumque tonantem\nSensibus et toto delectet corde fateri:\nQui sensus et corda dedit, cui conuenit uni\nFacturam seruire suam, cui iure perenni\nArcibus aetheriis una est cum patre potestas,\nPar splendor, communis apex, sociale cacumen,\nAequus honor, uirtus eadem, sine tempore regnum,\nSemper principium, sceptrum iuge, gloria consors,\nMaiestas similis. haec est uia namque salutis,\nHaec firmos ad dona gradus paschalia ducit.\nHaec mihi carmen erit: mentes hac uertite cuncti.\nHanc constanter opem laesis adhibete medullis,\nQuos letale malum, quos uanis dedita curis\nAttica Cecropii serpit doctrina ueneni,\nSectantesque magis uitam spirantis odorem\nLegis Athenaei paedorem linquite pagi.","t":"Since the pagan poets strive to parade their fictions\nin grand-sounding measures, and with tragic bellowing\nor with laughable Geta or any art of singing\nrenew the cruel contagion of unspeakable deeds\nand sing the memorials of crimes, and, with ritual as their teacher,\nhand down a mass of lies on Nile papyrus:\nwhy should I, accustomed to make the odes of David's songs\nresound on ten strings, and to stand reverently\nin the holy choir and sing heavenly things in gentle words,\nkeep silent about the bright miracles of Christ who brings salvation?\nFor I can speak of things that are plain, and it delights me\nto confess the thundering Lord with my senses and my whole heart:\nhe who gave senses and hearts, whom alone it befits\nthat his handiwork should serve, who by everlasting right\nin the citadels of heaven has one power with the Father,\nequal splendor, a common summit, a shared height,\nequal honor, the same might, a kingdom without time,\nalways the beginning, an unending scepter, a shared glory,\nlike majesty. For this is the way of salvation,\nthis leads firm steps to the gifts of Easter.\nThis will be my song: turn your minds this way, all of you.\nApply this help constantly to your wounded marrow,\nyou into whom deadly evil creeps, into whom the Attic doctrine\nof Cecropian poison creeps, given over to vain cares;\nand, following instead the fragrance of the law that breathes life,\nleave the filth of the Athenian village.","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 1.17 (CSEL 10:17lines 17–42–18; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/1-17)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/1.188":{"o":"Vltima labentis miseratus tempora lucis\nTer quinos quondam regi Deus addidit annos\nVsus iure suo, patefactaque limina claudens\nMortis ab occasu uitam conuertit in ortum.\nIonas puppe cadens, coeto sorbente uoratus\nIn pelago non sensit aquas, uitale sepulchrum\nNe moreretur habens, tutusque in uentre ferino\nDepositum, non praeda fuit, uastumque per aequor\nVenit ad ignotas inimico remige terras.\nCum spirante Deo Babylonia sacra negarent\nTres una cum mente uiri durumque subirent\nExitium saeui Chaldaea lege tyranni,\nCuius Achaemeniam rabies accenderat iram\nPlus fornace sua: medios truduntur in ignes\nNil audente rogo, tantumque ardore calentes\nCordis imagineae uincunt incendia poenae\nIgne animi. o quanta est credentum gloria! flammis\nArdentis fidei restincta est flamma camini.\nDigna sed inmitem mox perculit ultio regem.\nNam quod ab humana uecors pietate recessit,\nAgrestes pecudum consors fuit ille per herbas\nAulica depasto mutans conuiuia faeno.\nPronus ab amne bibit, septenaque tempora lustrat\nOmnibus hirsutus siluis et montibus errans.","t":"Pitying the last days of a fading light,\nGod once added thrice five years to the king,\nusing his own right, and, closing the opened thresholds\nof death, turned his life from setting to rising.\nJonah, falling from the stern, devoured as the sea-monster swallowed him,\nin the sea did not feel the waters, having a life-giving tomb\nso as not to die, and, safe in the beast's belly,\nwas a deposit, not a prey, and over the vast sea\ncame to unknown lands with a hostile oarsman.\nWhen, inspired by God, three men with one mind\nrefused the Babylonian rites and underwent harsh\ndestruction by the Chaldean law of the savage tyrant,\nwhose rage had kindled his Persian anger\nhotter than his furnace, they are thrust into the midst of the fires,\nthe pyre daring nothing, and, burning so with the ardor\nof their heart, they overcome the flames of the punishment for the image\nby the fire of their spirit. O how great is the glory of believers! By the flames\nof burning faith the flame of the furnace was put out.\nBut fitting vengeance soon struck the merciless king.\nFor because, in his madness, he departed from human kindness,\nhe became the companion of cattle in the wild grasses,\nexchanging courtly banquets for the hay he grazed.\nBent down, he drinks from the river, and passes seven seasons\nwandering, shaggy, through all the woods and mountains.","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 1.188 (CSEL 10:29lines 188–211–31; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/1-188)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/1.212":{"o":"Nec minus et Darii feruerunt iussa tyranni,\nEcce etenim sceleri scelus addidit ira furentis\nHebraeumque decus Danihel decernitur insons\nIeiunis cibus esse feris. sed belua iusto\nMitis facta uiro, sanctos ne laederet artus,\nCoepit amare famem; rabies mollita furorem\nDeposuit saeuisque in faucibus ira quieuit,\nEt didicere truces praedam seruare leones.\nDic ubi sunt, natura, tuae post talia leges,\nQui totiens tibi iura tulit? qui tartara iussit\nTranslatum nescire uirum, sterilemque marito\nFecundauit anum, sacram praecepit ad aram\nSponte uenire pecus, muliebres transtulit artus\nIn simulacra salis, ramos incendia passos\nNon ardere dedit, uirgultum soluit in anguem,\nPer pelagus siccauit iter, mirabile nimbis\nManna pluit, saxo latices produxit ab imo,\nQuadrupedem fari plano sermone coegit,\nSuspensis rapidas elementis distulit horas,\nPer uolucres hominem pasci dedit atque coruscis\nIn caelum transuexit equis, iam morte grauato\nAdiecit tria lustra uiro, praedonis in ore\nNaufragio fundauit opem, flagrante camino\nSeruauit sub rore pios, per pascua regem\nPauit ut hirsutam pecudem, rictusque leonum\nInstimulante fame iussit nescire furorem?","t":"No less did the orders of the tyrant Darius rage,\nfor see, the wrath of the raging king added crime to crime,\nand Daniel, glory of the Hebrews, innocent, is sentenced\nto be food for hungry beasts. But the beast, made gentle\ntoward the just man, so as not to harm the holy limbs,\nbegan to love its hunger; its rage, softened, laid aside its fury,\nand wrath rested in the savage jaws,\nand fierce lions learned to keep their prey safe.\nTell me, Nature, after such things where are your laws?\nWho is it that so often took away your rights? Who ordered Tartarus\nnot to know the man carried away, and made the barren old woman\nfruitful for her husband, ordered a beast to come of its own accord\nto the sacred altar, transformed a woman's limbs\ninto an image of salt, granted that branches enduring fire\nshould not burn, turned a rod into a snake,\ndried a path through the sea, rained manna wondrously from the clouds,\nbrought forth waters from the depths of a rock,\nforced a four-footed beast to speak in plain words,\nheld back the rushing hours, suspending the elements,\ngave a man to be fed by birds and carried him\nto heaven on flashing horses, added three lustra\nto a man already weighed down by death, founded help in shipwreck\nin the mouth of a robber, kept the pious safe under dew\nin a blazing furnace, fed a king in the pastures\nlike a shaggy beast, and ordered the jaws of lions,\nthough hunger goaded them, not to know fury?","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 1.212 (CSEL 10:31lines 212–237–33; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/1-212)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/1.238":{"o":"Nempe creatori, cuius quaecumque uidentur\nSeu quaecumque latent et rerum machina sermo est,\nOmne suum famulatur opus sequiturque iubentis\nImperium quacumque trahit sententia nutu.\nHeu miseri, qui uana colunt, qui corde sinistro\nReligiosa sibi sculpunt simulacra suumque\nFactorem fugiunt et quae fecere uerentur!\nQuis furor est ? quae tanta animos dementia ludit,\nVt uolucrem turpemque bouem tortumque draconem\nSemihominemque canem supplex homo plenus adoret ?\nAst alii solem caecatis mentibus acti\nAdfirmant rerum esse patrem, quia rite uidetur\nClara serenatis infundere lumina terris\nEt totum lustrare polum: cum constet ab istis\nMotibus instabilem rapidis discursibus ignem\nOfficium, non esse Deum, quique ordine certo\nNunc oritur, nunc occiduas dimissus in oras\nPartitur cum nocte uices. nec semper ubique est\nNec lumen fuit ille manens in origine mundi,\nCum geminum sine sole diem nouus orbis haberet.\nSic lunae quoque uota ferunt, quam crescere cernunt\nAc minui, stellisque litant quae luce fugantur.\nHic laticem colit, ille larem, sed iungere sacris\nNon audent inimica suis, ne lite propinqua\nAut rogus exiguas desiccet fortior undas,\nAut ualidis tenues moriantur fontibus ignes.","t":"Surely the Creator, whose word is whatever is seen\nor whatever lies hidden, and the whole machine of things:\nall his work serves him and follows the command of the one who orders it,\nwherever his decree draws it by his nod.\nAlas, wretched are those who worship vain things, who with perverse hearts\ncarve religious images for themselves, and flee\ntheir own maker and revere what they have made!\nWhat madness is this? What great insanity mocks men's minds,\nthat a grown man should adore as a suppliant a bird, a foul bull,\na twisted serpent, and a half-human dog?\nBut others, driven by blinded minds, affirm that the sun\nis the father of things, because it is seen duly\nto pour bright light on the clear lands\nand to traverse the whole sky: though it is plain from these\nmotions that the unstable fire with its rapid running to and fro\nis a servant, not God, which in fixed order\nnow rises, now, sent down to the western shores,\nshares its turns with night. Nor is it always everywhere,\nnor was it a light abiding at the origin of the world,\nwhen the new world had two days without a sun.\nSo too they bring vows to the moon, which they see grow\nand wane, and sacrifice to stars that are put to flight by light.\nThis one worships water, that one the hearth; but they dare not\njoin hostile things in their rites, lest in a close contest\nthe stronger pyre dry up the scanty waters,\nor the slender fires die by the strong springs.","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 1.238 (CSEL 10:33lines 238–263–35; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/1-238)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/1.264":{"o":"Arboreis alius ponit radicibus aras\nInstituitque dapes et ramos flebilis orat,\nVt natos caramque domum dilectaque rura\nConiugiique fidem, famulos censumque gubernent.\nLignee, ligna rogas, surdis clamare uideris,\nA mutis responsa petis, quae iura domorum\nHac ratione regunt, si caesa securibus actis\nArdua pendentis sustentent culmina tecti,\nAut subiecta focis dapibus famulentur edendis.\nNonnulli uenerantur holus mollesque per hortos\nNumina sicca rigant uerique hac arte uidentur\nTransplantatorum cultores esse deorum.\nPlura referre pudet, sanctoque in carmine longum\nVel damnare nefas, ne mollia sentibus uram\nLilia, purpurei neu per uiolaria campi\nCarduus et spinis surgat paliurus acutis.\nIam satis humanis erroribus addita monstra\nRisimus aut potius tales defleuimus actus.\nNunc coeptam iuuat ire uiam montemque per altum\nNitentes firmare gradus; properemus in urbem,\nLibertatis opem, radians ubi regia fuluis\nEmicat aula tholis, ubi dantur digna petenti,\nQuaerentem spes certa manet, claustrisque remotis\nPeruia pulsanti reserantur limina cordi.","t":"Another places altars at the roots of trees,\nsets out feasts and tearfully begs the branches\nto govern his children and dear home and beloved fields,\nthe faithfulness of his marriage, his servants and his property.\nMan of wood, you ask wood; you seem to cry out to the deaf;\nyou seek answers from the dumb; and they govern the rights of houses\nin this way: if, cut down by plied axes,\nthey hold up the lofty roof of the overhanging house,\nor, put under the hearth, they serve the meals to be eaten.\nSome venerate vegetables, and through soft gardens\nwater their dry deities, and by this art seem\nto be truly worshippers of transplanted gods.\nI am ashamed to tell more, and it is wrong in a holy song\neven to condemn at length, lest I burn soft lilies with briars,\nor lest through the violet beds of the purple field\nthe thistle and the thorn rise with their sharp spines.\nEnough now have we laughed at the monsters that human errors added,\nor rather wept at such acts.\nNow it pleases me to go the way I began, and, climbing the high mountain,\nto make my steps firm; let us hasten to the city,\nthe help of liberty, where the radiant royal hall\nflashes with tawny domes, where what is worthy is given to the one who asks,\nsure hope awaits the one who seeks, and, the bars removed,\nthe doors are opened to the heart that knocks.","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 1.264 (CSEL 10:35lines 264–287–37; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/1-264)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/1.288":{"o":"Hic est ille lapis, reprobum quem uertice gestat\nAngulus atque oculis praebet miracula nostris:\nCuius onus leue est, cuius iuga ferre suaue est.\nPer digesta prius ueteris miracula legis\nRettulimus, sancti coniuncto Spiritus actu\nQuae Genitor socia Nati uirtute peregit.\nPer digesta rudis necnon miracula legis\nDicemus, sancti coniuncto Spiritus actu\nQuae Natus socia Patris uirtute peregit,\nSemper ut una manens deitatis forma perennis\nQuod simplex triplicet quodque est triplicabile simplet.\nHaec est uera fides; hanc spreuit habere salutem\nArrius infelix, qui curua per auia rectum\nFlectere nisus iter, foueam dilapsus in atram\nConruit et tetri mersus petit ima profundi:\nTam uacuus sensu, iustae quam tempore poenae\nVisceribus fusis uacuus quoque uentre remansit.\nDemens, perpetui qui non imitanda parentis\nIura caducorum gradibus simulauit honorum!\nNamque homines inter natum genitore minorem\nLex carnalis habet, quoniam pater ipse parentis\nFilius ante fuit, mox et qui filius est nunc\nAdforet esse pater: sic per genus omne nepotum\nIt noua progenies et aui numerantur auorum.","t":"This is that stone, the rejected one, which the corner bears at its head\nand which offers wonders to our eyes:\nwhose burden is light, whose yoke is sweet to bear.\nThrough the miracles of the old law, set out in order, we have told before,\nwith the Holy Spirit acting together with them,\nwhat the Father accomplished with the allied power of the Son.\nThrough the miracles of the new law, set out in order, we will also\ntell, with the Holy Spirit acting together with them,\nwhat the Son accomplished with the allied power of the Father,\nso that the one form of the godhead, abiding forever,\nmay make the simple threefold and make the threefold simple.\nThis is the true faith; unhappy Arius scorned\nto hold this salvation, who, striving to bend the straight road\nthrough crooked byways, slipped into a black pit\nand fell headlong, and, sunk, seeks the depths of the foul abyss:\nas empty of sense as, at the time of his just punishment,\nhe was left empty in belly too, his bowels poured out.\nMadman, who modeled the inimitable rights of the eternal Parent\non the steps of perishable honors!\nFor among men the law of the flesh holds a son less than his father,\nsince the father himself was before the son of a parent,\nand soon he who is now a son will come to be a father:\nso through every generation of descendants\na new offspring goes on, and grandfathers of grandfathers are counted.","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 1.288 (CSEL 10:37lines 288–311–38; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/1-288)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/1.312":{"o":"At Dominus, uerbum, uirtus, sapientia, Christus,\nEt totum commune Patris, de lumine lumen,\nDe solo solus, cui nec minus est Patre quicquam,\nNec quo crescat habet, genitus, non quippe creatus:\nIpse est principium. nam sicut clarus habetur\nIn genitore manens, genitor quoque clarus in ipso\nPermanet, et rerum caput est Deus unus ubique.\nNon quia qui summus Pater est, et Filius hic est,\nSed quia quod summus Pater est, et Filius hoc est.\nSic ait ipse docens: ego in Patre et Pater in me.\nRursus: ego atque Pater unum sumus. Arrius unum\nDebet scire sumusque Sabellius esse fatendum.\nIste fidem ternam, hic non amplectitur unam:\nAmbo errore pares, quamquam diuersa sequentes.\nQualiter adsueti uarias producere sectas\nInpugnant sua dicta uiri, qui brachia nudis\nOstendunt exerta umeris, nil tradere docti\nSed tantum certare cati, prudentia quorum\nStulta iacet, quia uana Deo est sapientia mundi.\nHic loquitur nimis, ille tacet; hic ambulat, hic stat;\nAlter amat fletus, alter crispare cachinnum:\nDiuersisque modis par est uesania cunctis.\nInterea dum rite uiam sermone leuamus\nSpesque fidesque meum comitantur in ardua gressum,\nBlandius ad summam tandem peruenimus arcem.","t":"But the Lord, Word, Power, Wisdom, Christ,\nsharing all that is the Father's, light from light,\nthe Only from the Only, who has nothing less than the Father\nand nothing by which to grow, begotten indeed, not created:\nhe is the beginning. For as he is held glorious,\nabiding in the Begetter, so the Begetter too abides\nglorious in him, and the head of all things is one God everywhere.\nNot that he who is the highest Father is also this Son,\nbut that what the highest Father is, the Son is also.\nSo he says himself, teaching: “I in the Father and the Father in me.”\nAnd again: “I and the Father are one.” Arius ought to learn “one,”\nand Sabellius must confess “are.”\nThe latter does not embrace the threefold faith, the former not the one:\nboth equal in error, though following opposite ways.\nSo men accustomed to produce various sects\nattack their own sayings, men who show their arms\nthrust out from bare shoulders, taught to hand down nothing\nbut clever only at disputing, whose prudence\nlies foolish, because the wisdom of the world is vain before God.\nThis one talks too much, that one is silent; this one walks, that one stands;\none loves weeping, another a curling guffaw:\nand in different ways the madness is equal in all.\nMeanwhile, as we duly lighten the way with speech\nand hope and faith accompany my steps to the heights,\nat last, more pleasantly, we reach the highest citadel.","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 1.312 (CSEL 10:38lines 312–336–40; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/1-312)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/1.337":{"o":"En signo sacrata crucis uexilla coruscant,\nEn regis pia castra micant, tuba clamat erilis,\nMilitibus sua porta patet: qui militat intret,\nIanua uos aeterna uocat, quae ianua Christus.\nAurea perpetuae capietis praemia uitae,\nArma quibus Domini tota uirtute geruntur\nEt fixum est in fronte decus. Decus armaque porto\nMilitiaeque tuae, bone rex, pars ultima resto.\nHic proprias sedes, huius mihi moenibus urbis\nExiguam concede domum, tuus incola sanctis\nVt merear habitare locis alboque beati\nOrdinis extremus conscribi in saecula ciuis.\nGrandia posco quidem, sed tu dare grandia nosti,\nQuem magis offendit quisquis sperando tepescit.\nChriste, faue uotis, qui mundum in morte iacentem\nViuificare uolens quondam terrena petisti\nCaelitus, humanam dignatus sumere formam,\nSic aliena gerens, ut nec tua linquere posses.\nHoc Matthaeus agens hominem generaliter implet,\nMarcus ut alta fremit uox per deserta leonis,\nIura sacerdotii Lucas tenet ore iuuenci,\nMore uolans aquilae uerbo petit astra Iohannes.\nQuatuor hi proceres una te uoce canentes\nTempora ceu totidem latum sparguntur in orbem.\nSic et apostolici semper duodenus honoris\nFulget apex numero, menses imitatus et horas,\nOmnibus ut rebus totus tibi militet annus.\nHinc igitur ueteris recolens exordia mortis\nAd uitam properabo nouam lacrimasque serendo\nGaudia longa metam: nam qui deflemus in Adam\nSemina mittentes, mox exultabimus omnes\nPortantes nostros Christo ueniente maniplos.","t":"See, the banners hallowed by the sign of the cross flash,\nsee, the king's holy camp gleams, the master's trumpet calls,\nhis gate stands open to his soldiers: let whoever serves enter;\nthe eternal door calls you, and that door is Christ.\nYou will take the golden rewards of eternal life,\nyou who bear the arms of the Lord with all your strength\nand on whose foreheads the glory is fixed. I bear the glory and the arms\nand remain, good King, the last part of your army.\nHere grant me a home of my own; within the walls of this city\ngrant me a tiny house, so that I may deserve as your resident\nto dwell in the holy places and to be enrolled for ever\nas the last citizen on the white roll of the blessed order.\nI ask great things indeed, but you know how to give great things,\nyou who are offended more by whoever grows lukewarm in hope.\nChrist, favor my prayers, you who, wishing to give life\nto the world lying in death, once came from heaven to seek earthly things,\ndeigning to take human form,\nso bearing what was another's that you could not leave what was yours.\nMatthew, telling of this, fills out the man in general terms,\nMark roars like the lofty voice of a lion through the deserts,\nLuke holds the rights of priesthood with the face of a bullock,\nJohn, flying like an eagle, seeks the stars with the Word.\nThese four chiefs, singing you with one voice,\nare scattered into the wide world like as many seasons.\nSo too the twelvefold summit of apostolic honor\nalways shines in its number, imitating the months and the hours,\nso that the whole year may serve you in all things.\nFrom here, then, recalling the beginnings of the old death,\nI will hasten to new life, and, sowing tears,\nreap lasting joys: for we who weep in Adam,\nsending out seeds, will soon all exult,\ncarrying our sheaves as Christ comes.","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 1.337 (CSEL 10:40lines 337–368–42; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/1-337)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/1.43":{"o":"Quid labyrintheo, Thesidae, erratis in antro\nCaecaque Daedalei lustratis limina tecti?\nLabruscam placidis quid adhuc praeponitis uuis\nNeglectisque rosis saliuncam sumitis agri?\nQuid lapides atque aera coli, quid fana profana\nProderit et mutis animas damnare metallis?\nParcite puluerei squalentia iugera campi\nEt steriles habitare plagas, ubi gignere fructum\nArida nescit humus, nec de tellure cruenta\nLiuida mortiferis uellatis toxica sucis,\nTartareo damnata cibo: sed amoena uirecta\nFlorentum semper nemorum sedesque beatas\nPer latices intrate pios, ubi semina uitae\nDiuinis animantur aquis et fonte superno\nLaetificata seges spinis mundatur ademptis,\nVt messis queat esse Dei mercisque futurae\nMaxima centenum cumulare per horrea fructum.\nOmnipotens aeterne Deus, spes unica mundi,\nQui caeli fabricator ades, qui conditor orbis,\nQui maris undisonas fluctu surgente procellas\nMergere uicinae prohibes confinia terrae,\nQui solem radiis et lunam cornibus imples\nInque diem ac noctem lumen metiris utrumque,\nQui stellas numeras, quarum tu nomina solus,\nSigna, potestates, cursus, loca, tempora nosti,","t":"Why, sons of Theseus, do you wander in the labyrinth's cave\nand roam the blind thresholds of Daedalus's house?\nWhy do you still prefer the wild vine to the gentle grape,\nand, neglecting roses, gather the wild nard of the field?\nWhat good will it do to worship stones and bronze, and profane shrines,\nand condemn souls to dumb metals?\nCease to dwell in the squalid acres of a dusty plain\nand sterile tracts, where the dry ground does not know\nhow to bear fruit; and do not pluck from bloody earth\nlivid poisons with deadly juices,\ncondemned to the food of Tartarus: but enter the pleasant green places\nof ever-flowering groves and the blessed seats\nthrough the holy waters, where the seeds of life\nare quickened by divine waters, and, gladdened by the spring from above,\nthe crop is cleansed, its thorns removed,\nso that it may be God's harvest and heap up\na hundredfold fruit in the great granaries of the reward to come.\nAlmighty eternal God, only hope of the world,\nwho are present as the maker of heaven and founder of the earth,\nwho forbid the wave-roaring storms of the sea, as the flood rises,\nto overwhelm the borders of the neighboring land,\nwho fill the sun with rays and the moon with horns\nand measure out both lights for day and night,\nwho count the stars, whose names you alone\nknow, and their signs, powers, courses, places and times,","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 1.43 (CSEL 10:18lines 43–67–20; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/1-43)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/1.68":{"o":"Qui diuersa nouam formasti in corpora terram\nTorpentique solo uiuentia membra dedisti,\nQui pereuntem hominem uetiti dulcedine pomi\nInstauras meliore cibo potuque sacrati\nSanguinis infusum depellis ab angue uenenum,\nQui genus humanum praeter quos clauserat arca\nDiluuii rapida spumantis mole sepultum\nVna iterum de stirpe creas, ut mystica uirtus,\nQuod carnis delicta necant, hoc praesule ligno\nMonstraret liquidas renouari posse per undas,\nTotum namque lauans uno baptismate mundum:\nPande salutarem paucos quae ducit in urbem\nAngusto mihi calle uiam uerbique lucernam\nDa pedibus lucere meis, ut semita uitae\nAd caulas me ruris agat, qua seruat amoenum\nPastor ouile bonus, qua uellere praeuius albo\nVirginis agnus ouis grexque omnis candidus intrat.\nTe duce difficilis non est uia; subditur omnis\nImperiis natura tuis, rituque soluto\nTransit in aduersas iussu dominante figuras.\nSi iubeas mediis segetes arere pruinis,\nMessorem producit hiems; si currere mustum\nVernali sub sole uelis, florentibus aruis\nSordidus inpressas calcabit uinitor uuas:\nCunctaque diuinis parebunt tempora dictis.","t":"who formed the new earth into diverse bodies\nand gave living limbs to the inert soil,\nwho restore man, perishing through the sweetness of the forbidden fruit,\nwith better food, and by the drink of sacred\nblood drive out the poison poured in by the serpent,\nwho, when the human race was buried by the rushing mass\nof the foaming flood, except those whom the ark had shut in,\ncreate it again from one stock, so that a mystic power,\nwith this wood presiding, might show that what the sins of the flesh kill\ncan be renewed through flowing waters,\nwashing the whole world with one baptism:\nopen to me the saving way that leads a few to the city\nby a narrow path, and grant the lamp of your word\nto shine for my feet, so that the path of life\nmay bring me to the country folds, where the good Shepherd\nkeeps his pleasant sheepfold, where the Lamb of a virgin ewe,\ngoing before with white fleece, and all the white flock enter.\nWith you as guide the way is not hard; all nature\nis subject to your commands, and, its custom loosened,\npasses into opposite forms at your sovereign bidding.\nIf you bid crops ripen amid frosts,\nwinter brings out the reaper; if you wish new wine to run\nunder the spring sun, in flowering fields\nthe grimy vintner will tread the pressed grapes:\nand all seasons will obey your divine words.","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 1.68 (CSEL 10:20lines 68–92–22; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/1-68)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/1.93":{"o":"Indicio est antiqua fides et cana priorum\nTestis origo patrum, nullisque abolenda per aeuum\nTemporibus constant uirtutum signa tuarum.\nEx quibus audaci perstringere pauca relatu\nVix animis conmitto meis, siluamque patentem\nIngrediens aliquos nitor contingere ramos.\nNam centum licet ora mouens uox ferrea clamet\nCentenosque sonos humanum pectus anhelet,\nCuncta quis expediet, quorum nec lucida caeli\nSidera nec bibulae numeris aequantur harenae?\nPrimus abusque chao meritis uiuacibus Enoch\nMulta per innumeros iam saecula contigit annos\nNatura perdente modum: quem iure creandi\nTerra tulit genitum, sed mors miratur ademptum.\nSaucia iam uetulae marcebant uiscera Sarrae\nGrandaeuo consumpta situ, prolemque negabat\nFrigidus annoso moriens in corpore sanguis:\nCum seniore uiro gelidi praecordia uentris\nIn partum tumuere nouum tremebundaque mater\nAlgentes onerata sinus, spem gentis opimae\nEdidit et serum suspendit ad ubera natum.\nMactandumque Deo pater obtulit, at sacer ipsam\nPro pueri iugulis aries mactatur ad aram.","t":"Ancient faith is the proof, and the hoary origin of the earlier\nfathers is the witness, and the signs of your mighty works stand firm,\nnot to be blotted out by any time through the ages.\nOf these I scarcely dare to touch on a few\nin bold narration, and, entering the open forest,\nI strive to reach a few branches.\nFor though an iron voice should cry out, moving a hundred mouths,\nand a human breast pant out a hundred sounds,\nwho will set forth them all, which neither the bright stars\nof heaven nor the thirsty sands equal in number?\nFirst, from the beginning of the world, Enoch by his living merits\nreached many ages through countless years,\nnature losing its measure: whom, born by the law of creation,\nthe earth bore, but death marvels that he was taken away.\nAlready old Sarah's wounded womb was withering,\nconsumed by long decay, and the cold blood dying\nin her aged body denied offspring:\nwhen, her husband older still, the chilly depths of her belly\nswelled for a new birth, and the trembling mother,\nher cold bosom laden, brought forth the hope of a great nation\nand held her late-born son to her breasts.\nAnd the father offered him to God to be slain, but a sacred ram\nis slain at the very altar in place of the boy's throat.","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 1.93 (CSEL 10:22lines 93–115–24; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/1-93)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/2.1":{"o":"Expulerat primogenitum saeuissimus anguis\nFlorigera de sede uirum blandique saporis\nInlecebris letum misero portarat amarum.\nNec solus meritam praesumptor senserat iram\nMortali sub lege iacens, sed prorsus ab ipso\nHumanum simul omne genus. heu, noxia coniux!\nNoxia tu coniux magis an draco perfidus ille?\nPerfidus ille draco, sed tu quoque noxia coniux.\nPro dolor! aeterni fuerant duo. crescere posquam\nCoepit origo, perit clademque a semine sumpsit.\nQuid numerosa dies, quid tempore proderat illo\nCernere nongentos ultra feliciter annos\nProgeniemque senum decimam spectare nepotum\nIamque suum nescire genus: cum uicta supremis\nCursibus extremae sors inreparabilis horae,\nSera licet, uentura foret longumque per aeuum\nVita breuis nihil esse diu cum fine doleret?\nNec reducem spes ferret opem primique sepulchrum\nTerrigenae caeca sorberet lance nepotes:\nNi pius ille sator culpas ignoscere promptus,\nReddere difficilis, sua ne factura periret\nQuaeque Deo similis uiuens adstaret imago\nDissimilis de morte foret, ueniale misertus\nInstauraret opus pomisque uetaret acerbis,\nQuae mandere patres, natorum horrescere dentes\nDonaretque suis semper placatus, ut unde\nCulpa dedit mortem, pietas daret inde salutem,\nEt uelut e spinis mollis rosa surgit acutis\nNil quod laedat habens matremque obscurat honore:","t":"The most savage serpent had driven the first-born\nman from his flowering home, and by the allurements of a sweet taste\nhad brought bitter death to the wretch.\nNor did the presumptuous man alone feel the deserved anger,\nlying under the law of mortality, but from him\nthe whole human race together. Alas, harmful wife!\nAre you the more harmful, wife, or that treacherous dragon?\nThat dragon is treacherous, but you too are a harmful wife.\nO grief! The two had been eternal. After the race\nbegan to grow, it perished and took its ruin from its seed.\nWhat good did many days do, what good was it in that age\nto see beyond nine hundred happy years,\nto behold the tenth generation of aged descendants\nand no longer to know one's own offspring: when the irreparable lot\nof the last hour, conquered in its final courses,\nwould come, however late, and short life over a long age\nwould grieve that length is nothing when it has an end?\nNor would hope bring back help, and the tomb of the first\nearth-born man would swallow his descendants in a blind balance:\nhad not that kind Sower, ready to forgive faults,\nslow to repay them, lest his own handiwork perish,\nand the image that stood living, like God,\nshould become unlike him through death, in pity\nrestored the work that could be pardoned, and forbidden the children's teeth\nto be set on edge by the sour fruit the fathers ate,\nand, ever appeased, granted to his own that whence\nguilt gave death, from there kindness might give salvation;\nand, as a soft rose rises from sharp thorns,\nhaving nothing that wounds, and outshines its mother in beauty:","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 2.1 (CSEL 10:45lines 1–29–46; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/2-1)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/2.123":{"o":"Haec laceros crines nudato uertice rupit,\nIlla genas secuit, nudum ferit altera pugnis\nPectus et infelix mater (nec iam modo mater)\nOrba super gelidum frustra premit ubera natum.\nQuis tibi tunc, lanio, cernenti talia sensus?\nQuosue dabas fremitus, cum uulnera feruere late\nProspiceres arce ex summa uastumque uideres\nMisceri ante oculos tantis plangoribus aequor?\nExtinctisque tamen quamuis infantibus absens,\nPraesens Christus erat, qui sancta pericula semper\nSuscipit et poenas alieno in corpore sentit.\nAst ubi bis senos aetatis contigit annos,\nHoc spatium de carne trahens, aeuique meatus\nHumana pro parte tulit, senioribus esse\nCorde uidebatur senior legisque magistros\nInter ut emeritus residebat iure magister.\nNec mora (quas etenim uolitans per tempora mundus\nNouit habere moras?) usus maiore iuuenta,\nSex quasi lustra gerens placidam Iordanis ad undam\nVenit ut acciperet hoc, quod dare uenerat ipse.\nHunc Baptista potens ut uidit ab amne Iohannes,\nQuem matris dum uentre latet nondumque creatus\nSenserat obstruso iam tunc sermone prophetes\nVt muto genitore fluens, cui munera linguae\nPost noni taciturna diu spiramina mensis\nParto redduntur nato, mox praedicat: agnus\nEcce Dei ueniens peccatum tollere mundi.","t":"This one tore her hair from her bared head,\nthat one gashed her cheeks, another strikes her bare breast\nwith her fists, and the unhappy mother (no longer a mother now),\nbereaved, presses her breasts in vain over her cold child.\nWhat feelings had you then, butcher, seeing such things?\nWhat roars did you give, when you looked out from the highest citadel\nand saw wounds seething far and wide and the vast plain\nfilled before your eyes with such lamentation?\nYet, though absent from the slain infants,\nChrist was present, who always takes up holy perils\nand feels punishment in another's body.\nBut when he reached twice six years of age,\ndrawing this span from the flesh, and bore the course of life\nfor his human part, he seemed older in heart\nthan the elders, and among the teachers of the law\nhe sat by right as a master of long service.\nNo delay (for what delays does the world, flying through the times,\nknow how to have?): having the strength of fuller youth,\nbearing about six lustra, he came to the calm wave of the Jordan\nto receive what he himself had come to give.\nWhen mighty John the Baptist saw him from the river,\nthe prophet who, while he lay hidden in his mother's womb and was not yet born,\nhad perceived him already then, though his speech was blocked,\nas his father fell mute (to whom the gift of the tongue,\nafter the long silent breathing of the ninth month,\nwas restored when his son was born), at once he proclaims: “Behold\nthe Lamb of God, who comes to take away the sin of the world.”","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 2.123 (CSEL 10:52lines 123–149–54; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/2-123)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/2.150":{"o":"Tollere cum dicit quod non habet, hoc mihi tollit:\nNon mala ut ipse gerat, sed ut ipse nocentia perdat.\nQualiter in medias cum lux praeclara tenebras\nFunditur et proprium non obfuscata serenum\nDecutit expulsas inlaesis uultibus umbras,\nSic delicta fugans Saluator nostra gerendo\nTersit et adtactu procul euanescere iussit.\nTunc uada torrentum simplex ingressus aquarum,\nIn se cuncta lauat nostrae contagia uitae\nIpse nihil quod perdat habens, sanctoque liquentes\nCorpore mundauit latices famamque beauit\nGurgitis et propriis sacrauit flumina membris.\nSenserunt elementa Deum, mare fugit, et ipse\nIordanis refluas cursum conuertit in undas.\nNamque propheta canens: quidnam est, mare, quod fugis, inquit,\nEt tu, Iordanis, retro quia subtrahis amnem?\nErgo ubi flumineum post mystica dona lauacrum\nEgrediens siccas Dominus calcauit harenas,\nConfestim patuere poli, sanctusque columbae\nSpiritus in specie Christum uestiuit honore\nMansuetumque docet multumque incedere mitem\nPer uolucrem quae felle caret, Natoque uocato\nVoce Patris triplici Deus ex ratione probatur,\nQuod Pater et Natus, quod Spiritus est ibi sanctus,\nQuo manet indignus qui non numerauerit unum.","t":"When he says “take away” what he does not have, he takes it away for me:\nnot so that he himself may bear evils, but so that he may destroy what harms.\nAs when bright light is poured into the midst of darkness\nand, not darkened, shakes off from its own clear brightness\nthe shadows it drives out, its face unharmed,\nso the Savior, putting our sins to flight by bearing them,\nwiped them away and by his touch bade them vanish far off.\nThen, entering simply the shallows of the rushing waters,\nhe washes in himself all the contagions of our life,\nhaving himself nothing to lose, and with his holy body\ncleansed the flowing waters, blessed the stream's fame,\nand hallowed the rivers with his own limbs.\nThe elements felt God: the sea fled, and the Jordan itself\nturned its course back in refluent waves.\nFor the prophet sings: “What is it, O sea, that you flee,\nand you, Jordan, that you draw back your river?”\nSo when the Lord, after the mystic gifts, came out of the river's bath\nand trod the dry sands,\nat once the heavens opened, and the Holy Spirit in the form\nof a dove clothed Christ with honor\nand teaches us to walk gentle and very meek\nby means of the bird that has no gall; and, the Son being named\nby the Father's voice, God is proved by a threefold reckoning,\nfor the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit are there;\nand he who does not count them as one remains unworthy of him.","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 2.150 (CSEL 10:54lines 150–174–56; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/2-150)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/2.175":{"o":"Inde quater denis iam noctibus atque diebus\nIeiunum dapibus, sacro Spiramine plenum\nInsidiis temptator adit doctusque per artem\nFallaces offerre dapes: si filius, inquit,\nCerneris esse Dei, dic ut lapis iste repente\nIn panis uertatur opem, miracula tamquam\nHaec eadem non semper agat, qui saxea terrae\nViscera frugiferis animans fecundat aristis\nEt panem de caute creat. hac ergo repulsus\nVoce prius hominem non solo uiuere pane\nSed cuncto sermone Dei, labefactus et amens,\nAltera uipereis instaurans arma uenenis\nCum Domino montana petit cunctasque per orbem\nRegnorum monstrauit opes: haec omnia, dicens,\nMe tribuente feres, si me prostratus adores.\nQuantum peruersus, tantum peruersa locutus:\nScilicet ut fragilis regna adfectaret honoris\nQui populis aeterna parat, monstrumque nefandum\nPronus adoraret, cuius super aethera sedes,\nTerra pedum locus est, quem nullus cernit et omnis\nLaudat in excelsis submissa uoce potestas.\nChristus ad haec: tantum Dominum scriptura Deumque\nIussit adorari et soli famularier uni.\nHis quoque deficiens congressibus audet iniquus\nTer sese adtollens animo perstare superbo,\nTerque uolutus humo fragili confidere bello.","t":"Then, when he had fasted from food for forty nights and days,\nfull of the sacred Spirit,\nthe tempter approaches him with snares, skilled in the art\nof offering deceitful meals: “If you are seen,” he says,\n“to be the Son of God, say that this stone suddenly\nbe turned into the help of bread,” as if he did not\nalways do these same miracles, he who, quickening the stony\nbowels of the earth, makes them fruitful with grain-bearing ears\nand creates bread from rock. Driven back first by this\nword, that man lives not by bread alone\nbut by every word of God, shaken and frantic,\nrenewing other weapons with a viper's poison,\nhe goes with the Lord to the mountain heights and showed him all the wealth\nof the kingdoms throughout the world: “All these,” he says,\n“you will have, if I give them, if you prostrate yourself and adore me.”\nAs perverse as he was, so perverse were his words:\nthat he who prepares eternal kingdoms for the peoples should aspire\nto kingdoms of fragile honor, and should bow down\nto adore an unspeakable monster, he whose throne is above the ether,\nwhose footstool is the earth, whom no one sees and whom every power\non high praises with lowered voice.\nChrist answers: “Scripture has commanded that the Lord God alone\nbe adored, and the one alone be served.”\nFailing in these encounters too, the wicked one dares,\nthree times raising himself, to persist in his proud spirit,\nand, three times rolled in the dust, to trust in a fragile war.","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 2.175 (CSEL 10:56lines 175–200–57; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/2-175)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/2.201":{"o":"Tunc adsumpsit eum sanctam sceleratus in urbem,\nEt statuens alti supra fastigia templi:\nSi natum genitore Deo tete adseris, inquit,\nInpiger e summo dilapsus labere tecto.\nNam scriptura docet de te mandasse Tonantem,\nAngelicis subuectus eas ut tutior ulnis,\nAd lapidem ne forte pedem conlidere possis.\nO quam caeca gerit nigro sub pectore corda\nMens tenebris obscura suis! hunc ardua templi\nCulmina et erectae quamuis fastigia pinnae\nCredidit in praeceps horrescere, maxima summi\nCuruauit qui membra poli caelosque per omnes\nVectus in extremae discendit humillima terrae,\nInferiora petens et non excelsa relinquens.\nDixerat, et ualidi confossus cuspide uerbi,\nQuod temptare suum Dominumque Deumque nequiret,\nVictoris fugit ora gemens. tunc hoste repulso\nCaelicolae adsistunt proceres coetusque micantes,\nAngelici Christo famulantur rite ministri.\nProtinus ergo uiros ex piscatoribus aptos Humanas piscari animas, quae lubrica mundi\nGaudia sectantes tamquam uaga caerula ponti\nCaecaque praecipites tranant incerta profundi,\nDiscipulos iubet esse suos talesque supernae\nConciliat uitae, quos non uentosa loquendi\nGloria nec uana de nobilitate superbus\nSanguis alat sed fama tacens, humilique refulgens\nMente nitor caelo faciat de plebe propinquos.","t":"Then the criminal took him into the holy city,\nand, setting him on the pinnacle of the lofty temple,\nsaid: “If you claim to be the Son born of God the Father,\nglide down quickly from the top of the roof.\nFor Scripture teaches that the Thunderer gave orders concerning you,\nthat you should go more safely, borne up in angels' arms,\nlest perhaps you strike your foot against a stone.”\nO how blind a heart it bears in its black breast,\nthe mind darkened by its own darkness! It believed that he\nshuddered at the drop from the high summit of the temple,\nthe raised peak of the pinnacle, he who bent down the vast limbs\nof the highest heaven, and, carried through all the heavens,\ndescended to the lowest parts of the farthest earth,\nseeking the lower regions and not leaving the heights.\nHe had spoken, and, pierced by the point of the mighty word\nthat he could not tempt his Lord and God,\nhe flees the victor's face, groaning. Then, the enemy driven off,\nthe chiefs of heaven and the shining companies stand by,\nand angelic ministers duly serve Christ.\nAt once, then, he bids men from among the fishermen, fit\nto fish for human souls, which, chasing the slippery\njoys of the world as if the wandering blue of the sea,\nswim headlong through the blind uncertainties of the deep,\nto be his disciples, and wins for the life above such men\nas no windy glory of eloquence\nnor blood proud of empty nobility nourishes,\nbut whom silent repute and the brightness shining from a humble\nmind make, though common people, neighbors of heaven.","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 2.201 (CSEL 10:57lines 201–228–59; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/2-201)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/2.229":{"o":"Namque stulta potens elegit et infima mundi\nFortia confringens Deus et sapientia perdens.\nQuin etiam celerem cupiens conferre salutem\nOrandi praecepta dedit, iudexque benignus\nIndulgenda peti breuiter iubet, ut cito praestet,\nSic dicens: orate patrem, baptismate nostrum,\nIure suum; propriumque homini concessit honorem\nEt quod solus habet cunctos permisit habere.\nQui dominum caeli patrem memoramus, in ipso\nIam fratres nos esse decet nec origine carnis\nGermanum tractare odium, sed spiritus igne\nFlagrantes abolere doli monumenta uetusti\nAtque nouum gestare hominem, ne forsan ab alto\nDegenerent terrena Deo, cui nos duce Christo\nFecit adoptiuos caelestis gratia natos.\nSanctificetur ubi Dominus, qui cuncta creando\nSanctificat, nisi corde pio, nisi pectore casto?\nVt mereamur eum nos sanctificare colendo,\nAnnuat ipse prior, sicut benedicier idem\nSe iubet a nobis, a quo benedicimur omnes.\nAdueniat regnum iam iamque scilicet illud,\nMorte uacans et fine carens, cui nulla per aeuum\nTempora succedant, quia nescit tempus habere\nContinuus sine nocte dies: ubi principe Christo\nNobile perpetua caput amplectente corona\nVictor opima ferens gaudebit praemia miles.","t":"For God in his might chose the foolish and the lowest things of the world,\nbreaking the strong and destroying wisdom.\nMoreover, desiring to bestow swift salvation,\nhe gave precepts for praying, and the kindly judge\nbids us ask briefly for what is to be granted, so that he may grant it quickly,\nsaying: Pray to the Father, ours by baptism,\nhis by right; and he granted his own honor to man,\nand allowed all to have what he alone has.\nWe who call the Lord of heaven Father must now\nbe brothers in him, and not practice\nhatred between brothers born of the flesh, but, burning with the fire of the Spirit,\nabolish the monuments of the ancient deceit\nand put on the new man, lest earthly beings\nfall away from God on high, to whom heavenly grace,\nwith Christ as our leader, has made us adopted sons.\nHallowed: where is the Lord hallowed, who hallows all things by creating them,\nif not by a pious heart, if not by a chaste breast?\nThat we may deserve to hallow him by our worship,\nmay he first grant it, as he likewise bids himself\nbe blessed by us, he by whom we are all blessed.\nThy kingdom come: now, now, surely, that kingdom\nfree of death and without end, to which no times\nsucceed through the ages, because a continuous day without night\ndoes not know how to have time: where, with Christ as prince\nencircling his noble head with an everlasting crown,\nthe soldier, a victor, will rejoice, bearing rich rewards.","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 2.229 (CSEL 10:59lines 229–254–61; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/2-229)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/2.255":{"o":"Hoc iugibus uotis, hoc nocte dieque precemur,\nIllius ut fiat caelo terraque uoluntas,\nQui nusquam uult esse nefas hostemque nocentem\nVtque polo sic pellat humo, ne corpora nostra\nTamquam uile solum saeuus sibi uindicet hydrus;\nSed qui cuncta fouet plena pietate redundans\nOmnipotens animas pariter conseruet et artus:\nAltera pars etenim caeli sumus, altera terrae.\nAnnonam fidei speramus pane diurno,\nNe mens nostra famem doctrinae sentiat umquam\nA Christo ieiuna, suo qui corpore et ore\nNos saturat simul ipse manens uerbumque cibusque.\nDulcia nam Domini nostris in faucibus haerent\nEloquia exuperantque fauos atque omnia mella.\nDebita laxari qui nobis cuncta rogamus,\nNos quoque laxemus; proprii nam cautio uerbi\nSpondentes manifesta tenet, grauiusque soluti\nNectimur alterius si soluere uincla negemus:\nIncipietque pius decies millena talenta\nDimittens Dominus, si nos adfligere propter\nDenarios centum conseruum senserit ullum,\nTradere confestim tortoribus, inque feroci\nCarcere constricti non permittemur abire,\nDonec cuncta breuem reddamus adusque quadrantem.","t":"This let us pray with unceasing vows, night and day:\nthat his will be done in heaven and on earth,\nwho wills that wickedness be nowhere, and that the harmful enemy\nbe driven from the earth as from the sky, lest the savage serpent\nclaim our bodies for himself as worthless soil;\nbut may the Almighty, who cherishes all things, overflowing with full kindness,\npreserve souls and limbs alike:\nfor we are in one part of heaven, in the other of earth.\nWe hope for the ration of faith in our daily bread,\nlest our mind ever feel hunger for doctrine,\nfasting from Christ, who with his body and his mouth\nsatisfies us, remaining himself at once Word and food.\nFor the sweet words of the Lord cling in our throats\nand surpass the honeycomb and all honey.\nWe who ask that all our debts be released,\nlet us also release; for the bond of our own word\nplainly holds us as guarantors, and, released ourselves, we are bound more heavily\nif we refuse to loose another's chains:\nand the kindly Lord, who forgave ten thousand talents,\nif he perceives that we afflict any fellow servant\nfor a hundred denarii, will at once\nhand us over to the torturers, and, bound in a fierce\nprison, we shall not be allowed to leave\nuntil we have paid everything down to the last small coin.","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 2.255 (CSEL 10:61lines 255–278–62; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/2-255)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/2.279":{"o":"Non quia nos Dominus, lucis uia, semita pacis,\nIn laqueos temptantis agat, sed cum mala nostra\nDeserit, ire sinit. nam quisquis retia mundi\nDeliciosa sequens luxus et gaudia blandae\nPerditionis amat, Deus hunc, uirtutis amator,\nLinquit, et ingreditur qua se temptatio ducit.\nAb hac ergo pedem retro faciamus et artum\nCorde petamus iter, tenuis qua semita monstrat\nIre per angustam regna ad caelestia portam.\nSi cupimus uitare malum, debemus adire\nSectarique bonum: hic quia liberat, ille trucidat;\nHic alit, ille necat. nam quantum sidera terris,\nIgnis aquis, lumen tenebris, concordia bellis,\nVita sepulturis, tantum bona longius absunt\nDissociata malis. dextrum quicumque necesse est\nAut laeuum gradiatur iter. sed dextra bonorum\nSemita conspicuos uocat in sua gaudia iustos\nInque tuos, patriarcha, sinus: at laeua malorum\nExercet poenas et ad impia tartara mittit.\nErgo agnis ouibusque Dei est haec sola uoluntas\nEt bona libertas: euadere torua cruenti\nOra lupi uitaque frui per pascua Christi.","t":"Not that the Lord, the way of light, the path of peace,\ndrives us into the snares of the tempter, but when he forsakes\nour evils, he lets us go. For whoever, following the delightful\nnets of the world, loves luxuries and the joys\nof alluring perdition, him God, the lover of virtue,\nleaves, and he goes wherever temptation leads him.\nFrom this, then, let us draw back our foot and with our heart\nseek the narrow way, where the thin path shows\nhow to go through the narrow gate to the heavenly kingdom.\nIf we wish to avoid evil, we must approach\nand follow the good: for the one frees, the other slaughters;\nthe one nourishes, the other kills. For as far as the stars from the earth,\nfire from water, light from darkness, concord from war,\nlife from the grave, so far apart are the good\nfrom evil. Everyone must walk\neither the right-hand or the left-hand road. But the right-hand path\nof the good calls the conspicuous just into its joys\nand into your bosom, patriarch: but the left-hand path of the wicked\nexacts punishment and sends them to impious Tartarus.\nSo for God's lambs and sheep this is the only will\nand the good freedom: to escape the grim jaws\nof the bloodthirsty wolf and enjoy life in the pastures of Christ.","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 2.279 (CSEL 10:62lines 279–300–64; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/2-279)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/2.30":{"o":"Sic Euae de stirpe sacra ueniente Maria\nVirginis antiquae facinus noua uirgo piaret:\nVt quoniam natura prior uitiata iacebat\nSub dicione necis, Christo nascente renasci\nPossit homo et ueteris maculam deponere carnis.\nHaec uentura senes posquam dixere prophetae, Angelus intactae cecinit properata Mariae:\nEt dictum comitata fides, uterumque puellae\nSidereum mox implet onus, rerumque creator\nNascendi sub lege fuit. stupet innuba tensos\nVirgo sinus gaudetque suum paritura parentem.\nIamque nouem lapsis decimi de limine mensis\nFulgebat sacrata dies, cum uirgine feta\nPromissum conpleuit opus: uerbum caro factum,\nIn nobis habitare uolens. tunc maximus infans\nIntemerata sui conseruans uiscera templi\nInlaesum uacuauit iter: pro uirgine testis\nPartus adest, clausa ingrediens et clausa relinquens.\nQuae noua lux mundo, quae toto gratia caelo?\nQuis fuit ille nitor, Mariae cum Christus ab aluo\nProcessit splendore nouo? uelut ipse decoro\nSponsus ouans thalamo, forma speciosus amoena\nPrae filiis hominum, cuius radiante figura\nBlandior in labiis diffusa est gratia pulchris.","t":"so, as holy Mary came from Eve's stock,\na new virgin would atone for the crime of the ancient virgin:\nso that, since our former nature lay corrupted\nunder the dominion of death, man might be reborn\nas Christ is born, and lay aside the stain of the old flesh.\nAfter the aged prophets had told of these things to come,\nthe angel sang to untouched Mary of what was now at hand:\nand faith followed his word, and soon a starry burden\nfills the girl's womb, and the Creator of things\ncame under the law of birth. The unwed virgin is amazed\nat her swelling womb, and rejoices that she will bear her own Parent.\nAnd now, nine months gone, from the threshold of the tenth month\nthe hallowed day was shining, when, the virgin being with child,\nhe fulfilled the promised work: the Word made flesh,\nwilling to dwell among us. Then the greatest infant,\npreserving untouched the inner parts of his temple,\nleft the way unharmed as he came out: for the virgin\nthe birth itself stands as witness, entering when it was closed and leaving it closed.\nWhat new light for the world, what grace for the whole of heaven?\nWhat was that radiance when Christ came forth from Mary's womb\nwith new splendor? Like the very bridegroom\nrejoicing as he comes from his beautiful chamber, fair in lovely form\nabove the sons of men, from whose radiant figure\na winning grace is poured upon his beautiful lips.","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 2.30 (CSEL 10:46lines 30–53–48; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/2-30)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/2.54":{"o":"O facilis pietas! ne nos seruile teneret\nPeccato dominante iugum, seruilia summus\nMembra tulit Dominus, primique ab origine mundi\nOmnia qui propriis uestit nascentia donis.\nObsitus exiguis habuit uelamina pannis;\nQuemque procellosi non mobilis unda profundi,\nTerrarum non omne solum, spatiosaque lati\nNon capit aula poli, puerili in corpore plenus\nMansit et angusto Deus in praesepe quieuit.\nSalue, sancta parens, enixa puerpera regem,\nQui caelum terramque tenet per saecula, cuius\nNomen et aeterno conplectens omnia gyro\nImperium sine fine manet; quae uentre beato\nGaudia matris habens cum uirginitatis honore\nNec primam similem uisa es nec habere sequentem:\nSola sine exemplo placuisti femina Christo.\nTunc prius ignaris pastoribus ille creatus\nEnituit, quia pastor erat, gregibusque refulsit\nAgnus et angelicus cecinit miracula coetus.\nTalia Bethlois dum signa geruntur in oris,\nEoi uenere magi saeuumque tyrannum\nGrandia sollicitis perturbant nuntia dictis:","t":"O ready kindness! Lest the servile yoke should hold us\nwith sin reigning, the highest Lord bore the limbs\nof a servant, and he who, from the first origin of the world,\nclothes all things as they are born with his own gifts,\nhad small rags wrapped around him for covering;\nand he whom the moving wave of the stormy deep,\nwhom all the soil of the lands and the spacious hall\nof the wide sky cannot contain, remained full in a boy's body,\nand God rested in a narrow manger.\nHail, holy Parent, mother who brought forth the King\nwho rules heaven and earth through the ages, whose\nname, and whose rule, embracing all things in an eternal circle,\nremain without end; you who, with blessed womb,\nhaving the joys of a mother together with the honor of virginity,\nhave been seen to have no one like you before, nor any to follow:\nalone of women, without example, you pleased Christ.\nThen he, born, shone first to unknowing shepherds,\nbecause he was a shepherd, and the Lamb shone out to the flocks,\nand the company of angels sang of the miracles.\nWhile such signs are being done in the region of Bethlehem,\nthe magi came from the East, and with anxious words\nthey trouble the savage tyrant with great news:","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 2.54 (CSEL 10:48lines 54–75–49; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/2-54)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/2.76":{"o":"Iudaicis nuper populis orientis ab axe\nProgenitum fulsisse ducem, hoc caelitus astra,\nHoc stellam radiare nouam. ferus arbiter aulae\nAestuat Hebreae ratus hunc succedere posse\nMox sibimet, qui primus erat: tunc fronte serena\nNubila mentis alens clam mandat ubique requiri\nSicut adorandum, quem tractat fraude necandum.\nQuid furis, Herodes? Christum sermone fateris,\nEt sensu iugulare cupis, legemque legendo\nNeglegis et regi regum tua regna minaris.\nNe tamen insano careant tua nomina facto,\nPatrandum sub honore crucis (sed crimine gentis)\nHerodes alius quod tu molire uidebit.\nErgo alacres summo seruantes lumina caelo\nFixa magi sidusque micans regale secuti\nOptatam tenuere uiam, quae lege futura\nDuxit adorantes sacra ad cunabula gentes.\nThensaurisque simul pro religione solutis,\nIpsae etiam ut possint species ostendere Christum,\nAurea nascenti fuderunt munera regi,\nTura dedere Deo, myrram tribuere sepulchro.","t":"that recently, for the Jewish peoples, from the region of the East,\na leader born had shone forth; this the stars from heaven,\nthis a new star proclaimed with its rays. The fierce master of the Hebrew\ncourt seethes, thinking that this child might soon\nsucceed him who was first: then, with serene brow,\nnursing the clouds of his mind, he secretly orders him sought everywhere\nas if to be adored, whom he plots by fraud to kill.\nWhy do you rage, Herod? You confess Christ in speech,\nand in your mind wish to cut his throat, and, reading the law,\nyou neglect it, and threaten the King of kings with your kingdom.\nYet lest your name should lack an insane deed,\nanother Herod will see what you are plotting\ncarried out under the honor of the cross (but by the crime of the nation).\nSo the magi, eagerly keeping their eyes fixed\non highest heaven and following the flashing royal star,\nkept to the longed-for way, which, by the law of the future,\nled the nations to adore at the sacred cradle.\nAnd, opening their treasures for worship,\nso that the very kinds of gift could show who Christ was,\nthey poured out gifts of gold to the newborn King,\ngave incense to God, and offered myrrh for the tomb.","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 2.76 (CSEL 10:49lines 76–96–50; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/2-76)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/2.97":{"o":"Cur tria dona tamen? quoniam spes maxima uitae est\nHunc numerum confessa fides, et tempora summus\nCernens cuncta Deus, praesentia, prisca, futura,\nSemper adest semperque fuit semperque manebit\nIn triplici uirtute sui. tunc caelitus illi\nPer somnum moniti contemnere iussa tyranni\nPer loca mutati gradientes deuia callis\nIn patriam rediere suam. sic nos quoque sanctam\nSi cupimus patriam tandem contingere, posquam\nVenimus ad Christum, iam non repetamus iniquum.\nErgo ubi delusum se conperit, impius iram\nRex aperit (si iure queat rex ille uocari,\nQui pietate caret, propriam qui non regit iram)\nEreptumque gemens facinus sibi, ceu leo frendens,\nCuius ab ore tener subito cum labitur agnus,\nIn totum mouet arma gregem manditque trahitque\nMolle pecus, trepidaeque uocant sua pignera fetae\nNequiquam et uacuas implent balatibus auras:\nHaut secus Herodes Christo stimulatus adempto\nSternere conlisas paruorum strage cateruas\nInmerito non cessat atrox. quo crimine simplex\nTurba perit? cur qui uixdum potuere creari\nIam meruere mori? furor est in rege cruento,\nNon ratio; primosque necans uagitus et audens\nInnumerum patrare nefas puerilia mactat\nMilia plangoremque dedit tot matribus unum.","t":"Why three gifts, though? Because the faith that confesses\nthis number is the greatest hope of life, and God most high,\nwho sees all times, present, past and future,\nis always present, always was and always will remain\nin his threefold power. Then they,\nwarned from heaven in sleep to scorn the tyrant's orders,\ntraveling by out-of-the-way places on a changed road,\nreturned to their own country. So we too, if we desire\nat last to reach the holy fatherland, after\nwe have come to Christ, should not go back to the wicked one.\nSo when the impious king found himself deceived, he lays bare\nhis anger (if he can rightly be called a king\nwho lacks piety and does not rule his own anger),\nand, groaning that his crime has been snatched from him, like a gnashing lion\nfrom whose mouth a tender lamb suddenly slips,\nhe turns his arms against the whole flock and chews and drags\nthe soft cattle, and the trembling ewes call their young\nin vain and fill the empty air with bleating:\njust so Herod, goaded by Christ's escape,\ndoes not cease, ferocious, to strike down crowds of little ones\ncrushed in undeserved slaughter. For what crime does the innocent\ncrowd perish? Why have those who could scarcely be born\nalready deserved to die? There is madness in the bloody king,\nnot reason; killing those who had just begun to cry and daring\nto commit a countless crime, he slaughters thousands of boys\nand gave one lament to so many mothers.","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 2.97 (CSEL 10:51lines 97–122–52; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/2-97)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/3.1":{"o":"Prima suae Dominus thalamis dignatus adesse\nVirtutis documenta dedit conuiuaque praesens\nPascere, non pasci ueniens, mirabile! fusas\nIn uinum conuertit aquas: amittere gaudent\nPallorem latices, mutauit laeta saporem\nVnda suum largita merum, mensasque per omnes\nDulcia non nato rubuerunt pocula musto.\nImpleuit sex ergo lacus hoc nectare Christus:\nQuippe ferax qui uitis erat uirtute colona\nOmnia fructificans, cuius sub tegmine blando\nMitis inocciduas enutrit pampinus uuas.\nPost regulus nato quidam moriente rogabat\nFlebilis et supplex Dominum, quo uiseret aegrum\nFebre laborantem puerum trepidamque uetaret\nLabi animam de sede sua. tunc larga potestas,\nCredenti quae nulla negat nec dona retardat,\nVelocem comitata fidem, sermone salutem\nConcedens facili: uiuit iam filius, inquit,\nPerge, tuus. quantum imperii fert iussio Christi!\nNon dixit 'uicturus erit' sed 'iam quia uiuit'\nMore Dei, qui cuncta prius quam nata uidendo\nPraeteritum cernit quidquid uult esse futurum.\nInde salutiferis incedens gressibus urbes,\nOppida, rura, casas, uicos, castella peragrans,\nOmnia depulsis sanabat corpora morbis.","t":"First, the Lord, deigning to be present at a wedding,\ngave proofs of his power and, present as a guest,\ncoming to feed, not to be fed (wonderful!), turned poured-out\nwater into wine: the waters rejoice to lose\ntheir pallor, the glad wave changed its taste,\nbestowing pure wine, and at every table\nsweet cups grew red with must not born of the vine.\nSo Christ filled six vessels with this nectar:\nhe who was himself the fruitful vine, by his tilling power\nmaking all things fruitful, under whose kindly covering\nthe gentle vine-leaf nourishes grapes that never fail.\nAfterwards a certain official, his son dying, begged\nthe Lord, weeping and suppliant, to visit the sick boy\nlaboring with fever and forbid his trembling soul\nto slip from its seat. Then generous power,\nwhich denies nothing to the believer and does not delay its gifts,\nkept pace with swift faith, granting health\nby an easy word: “Your son lives now,” he says,\n“go.” How much authority Christ's command carries!\nHe did not say “he will live” but “because he lives now,”\nin the manner of God, who, seeing all things before they are born,\nsees as past whatever he wills to be future.\nThen, advancing with saving steps, traveling through cities,\ntowns, fields, cottages, villages and fortresses,\nhe healed all bodies, driving away their diseases.","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 3.1 (CSEL 10:66lines 1–25; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/3-1)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/3.103":{"o":"Principis interea synagogae filia clauso\nFuncta die superas moriens amiserat auras.\nAt genitor, cui finis edax spem prolis adultae\nSustulerat, sanctos Domini lacrimansque gemensque\nConruit ante pedes, uix uerba precantia fari\nSingultu quatiente ualens 'miserere parentis\nOrbati, miserere senis, modo filia' dicens\n'Vnica uirgineis nec adhuc matura sub annis\nOccidit et misero patris mihi nomen ademit.\nAdfer opem lapsamque animam per membra refunde,\nQui totum praestare potes'. haec inquit: et auctor\nLucis ad extinctae pergebat funera gressum\nVix populo stipante mouens, permixtaque turbis\nIbat inundantem mulier perpessa cruorem,\nQuae magnas tenuarat opes, ut sanior esset,\nExhaustaque domu nec proficiente medella\nPerdiderat proprium pariter cum sanguine censum.\nAst ubi credentis iam sano in pectore coepit\nDiues adesse fides, mediis inmersa cateruis\nNititur auersi uel filum tangere Christi.\nPosteriusque latens subitam furata salutem\nExtrema de ueste rapit siccisque fluentis\nDamnauit patulas audax fiducia uenas.\nSenserat ista Deus, cuius de fonte cucurrit\nQuod uirtus secreta dedit, furtumque fidele\nLaudat et egregiae tribuit sua uota rapinae.","t":"Meanwhile the daughter of the ruler of the synagogue, her day closed,\nhad died and lost the air above.\nBut her father, from whom devouring death had taken the hope\nof a grown child, weeping and groaning, threw himself before\nthe Lord's holy feet, scarcely able to utter words of prayer\nfor the sobs that shook him, saying: “Have mercy on a bereaved\nparent, have mercy on an old man; just now my only daughter,\nnot yet ripe in her virgin years,\nhas died and taken from wretched me the name of father.\nBring help and pour back her departed soul into her limbs,\nyou who can do all things.” So he said: and the Author\nof light was making his way to the funeral of the dead girl,\nscarcely able to move his steps for the crowding people; and mingled with the crowds\nwent a woman who had suffered from a flow of blood,\nwho had wasted great wealth to become healthier,\nand, her house drained and no medicine helping,\nhad lost her property together with her blood.\nBut when rich faith began to dwell in the believer's\nnow sound heart, plunging into the midst of the crowds,\nshe strives to touch even a thread of Christ as he turned away.\nAnd, hiding behind, she stole a sudden cure,\nsnatching it from the hem of his garment, and, the flow dried up,\nher bold confidence closed the open veins.\nGod had felt this, from whose spring there ran\nwhat his secret power gave, and he praises the faithful theft\nand grants its wish to the excellent robbery.","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 3.103 (CSEL 10:72lines 103–128–74; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/3-103)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/3.129":{"o":"Ventum erat ad maesti lugentia culmina tecti\nDeflentemque domum, moriens ubi uirgo iacebat\nExtremum sortita diem, trepidusque tumultus\nOmnia lamentis ululans implebat amaris,\nFunereosque modos cantu lacrimante gemebant\nTibicines, plangorque frequens confuderat aedes.\nPonite sollicita conceptos mente dolores,\nHic sopor est, Saluator ait, nec funus adesse\nCredite, nec somno positam lugete puellam.\nDixerat et gelida constrictum morte cadauer\nSpiritus igne fouet, uerboque inmobile corpus\nSuscitat atque semel genitam bis uiuere praestat.\nObstipuere animis, inopinaque uota parentes\nAspiciunt uersisque modis per gaudia plangunt.\nInde pedem referens duo conspicit ecce sequentes\nCaecatos clamare uiros: fili inclite Dauid,\nDecute nocturnas extinctis uultibus umbras\nEt clarum largire diem. quam credere tutum,\nQuam sanum est cognosse Deum! iam corde uidebant\nQui lucis sensere uiam; tunc caeca precantum\nLumina defuso ceu torpens ignis oliuo\nSub Domini micuere manu, tactuque sereno\nInstaurata suis radiarunt ora lucernis.","t":"They had come to the grieving roof of the sad house\nand the weeping home, where the maiden lay dead,\nhaving met her last day, and a frantic tumult\nfilled all with bitter laments and howling,\nand the flute-players moaned funeral strains\nin weeping song, and constant beating of breasts had filled the house with confusion.\n“Lay aside the griefs your anxious minds have conceived;\nthis is sleep,” the Savior says, “do not believe that a funeral\nis here, nor mourn the girl laid to sleep.”\nHe had spoken, and he warms the corpse held fast by icy death\nwith the fire of the Spirit, and by his word raises\nthe motionless body and grants her who was born once to live twice.\nThe parents were astonished in mind, and they see their unhoped-for\nwishes, and, in changed measures, beat their breasts for joy.\nThen, as he turned back, look, he sees two blind men\nfollowing and crying out: “Glorious Son of David,\nshake off the nocturnal shadows from our darkened faces\nand grant us bright day.” How safe it is to believe,\nhow sound to know God! They already saw in heart,\nwho had perceived the way of light; then the blind eyes of those praying,\nlike a fire growing dim when olive oil is poured on,\nflashed under the Lord's hand, and at his serene touch\ntheir faces, restored, shone with their own lamps.","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 3.129 (CSEL 10:74lines 129–151–75; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/3-129)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/3.152":{"o":"His ita dimissis alius producitur aeger,\nMultiplici languore miser, qui uoce relictus,\nAuditu uacuus, solo per inania membra\nDaemone plenus erat. hunc protinus ordine sacro\nCurauit uersis Deus in contraria causis,\nDaemonio uacuans, auditu et uoce reformans.\nNec minus interea proprios iubet omnia posse\nDiscipulos totisque simul uirtutibus implens:\nIte, ait, et tristes morborum excludite pestes,\nSed domus Israhel (quia necdum nomine gentes\nAuxerat hoc omnes), caelorum dicite regnum,\nDaemoniis auferte locum, depellite lepram\nFunctaque subductae reuocate cadauera uitae:\nSumpsistis gratis, cunctis inpendite gratis.\nAc uelut hoc dicens: ego uobis quippe ministris\nSeruandos conmitto greges, ego denique pastor\nSum bonus et proprios ad uictum largior agros:\nNemo meis ouibus quae sunt mea pascua uendat.\nHaec in apostolicas ideo prius edidit aures\nOmnipotens, ut ab his iam sese auctore magistris\nIn reliquum doctrina fluens decurreret aeuum:\nQualiter ex uno paradisi fonte leguntur\nQuatuor ingentes procedere cursibus amnes,\nEx quibus in totum sparguntur flumina mundum.","t":"These dismissed, another sick man is brought forward,\nwretched with manifold weakness, whom his voice had left,\nempty of hearing, filled only with a demon\nthroughout his empty limbs. God healed him at once in holy order,\nturning the causes into their opposites,\nemptying him of the demon, restoring hearing and voice.\nNo less, meanwhile, he bids his own disciples have power over all things,\nand fills them at once with all powers:\n“Go,” he says, “and shut out the sad plagues of disease,\nbut to the house of Israel (for not yet had he enlarged\nall nations with this name) proclaim the kingdom of heaven,\nleave no place to demons, drive out leprosy,\nand call back the bodies of the dead whose life was withdrawn:\nyou have received freely, spend freely on all.”\nAs if he said: “To you, my ministers, I entrust\nthe flocks to be saved; I, in short, am the good shepherd,\nand I lavish my own fields for food:\nlet no one sell to my sheep the pastures that are mine.”\nThe Almighty spoke these words first into the apostles' ears,\nso that from them as teachers, he himself being the author,\nthe teaching might flow down through the rest of the ages:\njust as four great rivers are read to go forth\nin their courses from the one spring of paradise,\nand from them streams are scattered through the whole world.","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 3.152 (CSEL 10:75lines 152–175–77; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/3-152)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/3.176":{"o":"Quisquis enim deitatis opus, quod non habet ex se\nSed Domino tradente gerit, sub nomine puro\nSuscipiet, puro dispenset munere, possit\nVt dispensator non ut mercator haberi\nDauidisque modis uitam cantare futuram:\nIntrabo in Domini requiem, quia nescio mercem.\nExin conspicuam synagogae ingressus in aulam,\nAspicit inualidum, dimenso corpore mancum,\nSeminecem membris, non totum uiuere, cuius\nArida torpentem damnarat dextera partem;\nImperioque medens gelidam recalescere palmam\nPraecipit et reduci diuino more saluti,\nSicut semper agit, nil tollit et omnia reddit.\nEn iterum ueteres instaurans lubricus artes\nIlle chelydrus adest, nigri qui felle ueneni\nLiuidus humano gaudet pinguescere tabo,\nQuodque per alternos totiens disperserat aegros\nVirus in unius progressus uiscera fudit:\nCui uocem lumenque tulit, triplicique furore\nSaucia membra tenens mutum quatiebat et orbum.\nTunc Dominus mundi, lux nostra et sermo parentis,\nSordibus exclusis oculos atque ora nouauit;\nVerbaque per uerbum, per lumen lumina surgunt.\nVenerat et mulier morbo contracta uetusto\nNon senio, tremebunda, gemens, incurua, caducis\nVultibus et solam dispectans cernua terram.","t":"For whoever receives under a pure name the work of the Godhead,\nwhich he does not have from himself but carries as the Lord hands it on,\nlet him dispense it as a pure gift, so that he may be counted\na steward, not a merchant,\nand may sing of the life to come in David's measures:\n“I will enter into the Lord's rest, because I do not know trade.”\nThen, entering the conspicuous hall of the synagogue,\nhe sees a weak man, maimed in his divided body,\nhalf-dead in his limbs, not wholly alive, whose\nwithered right hand had condemned the paralyzed part;\nand, healing by command, he orders the cold palm\nto grow warm again and to be restored to health in God's way,\nas he always does: he takes nothing away and restores everything.\nLook: that slippery serpent is here again, renewing\nhis old arts, livid with the gall of black poison,\nwho rejoices to grow fat on human gore,\nand the venom which he had so often scattered among different sick people\nhe poured, advancing, into the entrails of one:\nhe took from him his voice and his sight, and, holding his wounded limbs\nwith a threefold fury, he shook him, mute and blind.\nThen the Lord of the world, our light and the Word of the Father,\nshutting out the filth, renewed his eyes and mouth;\nand words rise through the Word, sight through the Light.\nThere had come also a woman bent by an old disease,\nnot by age, trembling, groaning, stooped, with downcast\nface, bowed over and looking only at the ground.","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 3.176 (CSEL 10:77lines 176–201–79; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/3-176)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/3.202":{"o":"Quae Domino miserante iuges post octo decemque\nMembra leuat messes, caelumque ac sidera tandem\nCernit et ardentem solis reminiscitur orbem,\nTotum erecta uidens: quia quos malus opprimit hostis\nIma petunt, quos Christus alit sine labe resurgunt.\nCumque dehinc populum sese in deserta secutum\nVt typicus Moyses uerusque propheta uideret\nAntiquam sentire famem, maioribus actis\nAntiquam monstrauit opem, tunc alite multa\nCarnis opima dedit, geminis modo piscibus auxit;\nSufficiens tunc manna pluit, modo panibus amplum\nQuinque dedit uictum per milia quinque uirorum.\nCetera turba latet, numero nec clauditur ullo\nMaxima paruorum legio uel maxima matrum.\nQuodque magis stupeas, cophinos ablata replerunt\nFragmina bis senos, populisque uorantibus aucta\nQuae redit a cunctis non est data copia mensis.\nIamque senescentem calidi sub caerula ponti\nOceano rapiente diem, cum pallor adesset\nNoctis et astriferas induceret hesperus umbras,\nDiscipuli solo terris residente magistro\nVndosum petiere salum, fluctuque tumenti\nTorua laborantem iactabant aequora puppem;\nAduersus nam flatus erat. tunc noctis opacae\nTempore calcatas Dominus superambulat undas\nEt uasti premit arua freti, glaucisque fluentis","t":"who, by the Lord's mercy, after eighteen unbroken harvests\nraises her limbs, and sees at last the sky and the stars\nand recalls the burning orb of the sun,\nseeing everything, upright: because those whom the evil enemy crushes\nhead for the depths; those whom Christ nourishes rise up without stain.\nAnd when he saw that the people who had followed him into the desert\nfelt the ancient hunger, he, the Moses of the figure and the true prophet,\nshowed the ancient help by greater deeds: then, with many birds,\nhe gave rich meat; now he multiplied two fish;\nthen he rained sufficient manna; now with five loaves\nhe gave ample food to five thousand men.\nThe rest of the crowd lies hidden, not counted in any number,\nthe great legion of little ones, or the great one of mothers.\nAnd, what you may wonder at more, the fragments gathered up filled\ntwelve baskets, and, increased as the people ate,\nthe plenty that comes back from all the tables is more than what was given.\nAnd now, as Ocean was snatching the aging day\nbeneath the blue of the warm sea, when the pallor\nof night had come and Hesperus was bringing on the starry shadows,\nthe disciples, their master remaining alone on land,\nmade for the billowing sea, and in the swelling flood\ngrim waters were tossing the laboring boat;\nfor the wind was against them. Then, in the darkness of night,\nthe Lord walks over the waves he treads\nand presses the plains of the vast sea, and with gray flowings","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 3.202 (CSEL 10:79lines 202–227–81; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/3-202)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/3.228":{"o":"Circumfusa sacras lambebant marmora plantas.\nMiratur stupefacta cohors sub calle pedestri\nNauigeras patuisse uias: at Petrus amicam\nDoctus habere fidem Christumque agnoscere semper\nIn medias discendit aquas, quem dextra leuauit\nLabentem Domini, nil tanto in gurgite passum:\nCui portus fuit illa manus, pelagique uiator\nLibera per uitreos mouit uestigia campos.\nGenesar inde soli Domino ueniente coloni\nInfirmos traxere suos, ut fimbria saltim\nVix adtacta Dei morbis mederetur acerbis:\nEt quotquot tetigere iugem sensere salutem.\nQuam pretiosa fuit quae numquam uendita uestis,\nIpsa omnes modici redimebat munere fili!\nHinc Tyrias partes Sidoniaque arua petentem\nAnxia pro natae uitio, quam spiritus atris\nVexabat stimulis, mulier Chananaea rogabat,\nSe canibus confessa parem, qui more sagaci\nSemper odoratae recubant ad limina mensae,\nAdsueti refluas dominorum lambere micas.\nVox humilis, sed celsa fides, quae sospite nata\nDe cane fecit ouem gentisque in sentibus ortam\nConpulit Hebraei de gramine uescier agri.","t":"the marble waters flowing around licked his holy soles.\nThe astonished company marvels that ways for ships\nlay open to a path for feet: but Peter, taught to keep friendly faith\nand always to recognize Christ,\ngoes down into the midst of the waters; the Lord's right hand lifted him\nas he slipped, so that he suffered nothing in so great a flood:\nfor him that hand was a harbor, and, a traveler on the sea,\nhe moved free footsteps over the glassy plains.\nThen, when the Lord came, the inhabitants of the land of Gennesaret\nbrought their sick, so that the fringe of God, even barely touched,\nmight heal their bitter diseases:\nand as many as touched it felt lasting health.\nHow precious was the garment that was never sold,\nwhich by the gift of a little thread redeemed them all!\nFrom there, as he made for the region of Tyre and the fields of Sidon,\na Canaanite woman, anxious over the affliction of her daughter,\nwhom a spirit tormented with black goads, was begging him,\nhaving confessed herself equal to the dogs, which with their keen nose\nalways lie at the threshold of the fragrant table,\nused to licking the crumbs that fall from their masters.\nA humble voice, but lofty faith, which, saving her daughter,\nmade a sheep out of a dog, and made one born among the briars\nof the Gentiles feed on the grass of the Hebrew field.","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 3.228 (CSEL 10:81lines 228–250–83; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/3-228)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/3.251":{"o":"Alta dehinc subiens montis iuga plebe sequente\nMilia caecorum, claudorum milia passim\nLeprososque simul populos surdasque cateruas,\nInualidasque manus et quidquid debile uulgi\nVenerat, in priscum conponit motibus usum\nEt reuocata suis adtemperat organa neruis.\nDumque medens aegrum refouet uirtute tumultum,\nTertia lux aderat, sterilique in cespite nullum\nContigerat plebs tanta cibum, nimiosque labores\nNutribat geminanda fames si saucia callem\nTurba per ingentem dapibus ieiuna rediret.\nQua flexus pietate Deus, qui semper egentum\nPanis adest uictumque locis sine frugibus infert,\nPisciculis paucis et septem panibus agmen\nPauit inorme uirum, praeterque infirma secundi,\nSexus et aetatis saturauit quattuor illic\nMilia uescentum. plus ut mireris, et auctas\nDisce fuisse dapes, epulas nutriuit edendo\nVulgus, et adtritae creuerunt morsibus escae.\nReliquiasque suas, sportarum culmina septem,\nExpauit fugitiua fames, ubi fragmine sumpto\nVidit abundantem modico de semine messem.","t":"Then, climbing the high ridges of the mountain, the people following,\nthousands of blind, thousands of lame from everywhere,\nand peoples of lepers together, and crowds of the deaf,\nand weak hands, and whatever of the crowd had come\nfeeble, he restores to their former use in motion,\nand fits the organs he has recalled to their sinews.\nAnd while, healing, he refreshes the sick multitude by his power,\nthe third day had come, and on the barren turf\nso great a people had found no food, and hunger, about to be doubled,\nwas feeding excessive toil, if the wounded crowd\nshould go back, fasting from food, along the long road.\nMoved by this kindness, God, who is always the bread\nof the needy and brings food to places without crops,\nfed a huge column of men with a few small fish and seven loaves,\nand, besides those of the weaker sex and of tender age,\nsatisfied there four thousand\nwho ate. That you may marvel the more, learn too that the food was increased:\nthe crowd made the meal grow by eating, and the worn food\ngrew under their bites.\nAnd fleeting hunger dreaded its remnants, seven baskets\nfilled to the top, when, the fragments gathered,\nit saw an abundant harvest from a little seed.","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 3.251 (CSEL 10:83lines 251–272–84; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/3-251)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/3.26":{"o":"Ecce autem mediae clamans ex agmine turbae\nLeprosus poscebat opem uariosque per artus\nPlus candore miser: si uis, Domine, inquit, ab istis\nMe maculis mundare, potes. 'uolo' Christus ut inquit,\nConfestim redit una cutis proprioque decore\nLaeta peregrinam mutarunt membra figuram,\nInque suo magis est uix agnitus ille colore.\nForte Petri ualidae torrebat lampadis aestu\nFebris anhela socrum, dubioque in funere pendens\nSaucia sub gelidis ardebat uita periclis,\nInmensusque calor frigus letale coquebat.\nAt posquam fessos Domini manus adtigit artus,\nIgneus ardor abiit, totisque extincta medullis\nFonte latentis aquae cecidit uiolentia flammae.\nQuin etiam rabidas nigrorum depulit iras\nSpirituum, ne flatus atrox laceraret iniqua\nPeste homines operisque Dei uexaret honorem,\nQuem norat non esse Dei; passimque cateruas\nVt pius innumeras pulso languore saluti\nReddidit et uaria populos a clade leuauit.\nInde marina petens arentes gressibus algas\nPressit, et exiguae conscendens robora cumbae\nAequoreas intrauit aquas; Dominumque sequentes\nDiscipuli placido librabant carbasa ponto.","t":"But look, crying out from the column in the middle of the crowd,\na leper was asking for help, wretched with the excess of white\nall over his mottled limbs: “If you will, Lord,” he says,\n“you can cleanse me of these spots.” As Christ says “I will,”\nat once his skin returns to one color, and with their own beauty\nhis glad limbs changed their foreign look,\nand in his own color he is scarcely recognized.\nIt happened that a panting fever was roasting Peter's mother-in-law\nwith the heat of a strong torch, and, hanging between life and death,\nher wounded life was burning amid chilling perils,\nand immense heat was seething a deadly cold.\nBut after the Lord's hand touched her weary limbs,\nthe fiery heat departed, and, quenched in all her marrow,\nthe violence of the flame fell as by a spring of hidden water.\nMoreover he drove out the raging wrath of black\nspirits, lest their cruel breath tear men with wicked\nplague and harass the honor of God's handiwork,\na spirit he knew was not of God; and everywhere,\nkindly, he restored countless crowds to health, their weakness driven out,\nand relieved the peoples of all kinds of disaster.\nThen, making for the sea, he trod the dry seaweed\nand, climbing into the timbers of a small boat,\nwent out on the waters; and the disciples following the Lord\ntrimmed the sails on the calm sea.","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 3.26 (CSEL 10:66lines 26–49–68; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/3-26)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/3.273":{"o":"Nec tamen humano quamuis in corpore Christum,\nMatris ab occasu mortalia membra gerentem,\nClam fuit esse Deum, quia non absconditur umquam\nVrbs in monte sedens, modio nec subditur ardens\nLychnus, anhelantem sed spargens altius ignem\nCunctis lumen agit: radians nam testibus amplo\nDiscipulis fulgore tribus uelut igneus ardor\nSolis, in aetheriam uersus splendore figuram,\nVicerat ore diem, uestemque tuentibus ipsam\nCandida forma niuis Domini de tegmine fulsit.\nmeritum sublime trium, quibus illa uidere\nContigit in mundo quae non sunt credita mundo!\nQuid quod et Heliam et clarum uidere Moysen?\nIgnotos oculis uiderunt lumine cordis,\nVt maior sit nostra fides: hunc esse per orbem\nPrincipium ac finem, hunc a uiderier, hunc ω.\nQuem medium tales circumfulsere prophetae,\nAlter adhuc uiuens, alter stans limite uitae.\nSidereoque sono 'meus est hic Filius' aiens\nOstendit uerbo genitum uox patria Christum.\nPostquam corporeos uirtus regressa per artus\nTexit adoratam carnis uelamine formam,\nSeque palam Dominus populis dedit: ecce repente\nVir humilis maesto deiectus lumina uultu\nProcedit supplexque manus et brachia tendit\nInploratque gemens: unus mihi filius, unus\nEst, Domine; horrenda lacerat quem spiritus ira\nNec linquit, nisi mergat aquis aut ignibus atris\nOpprimat, atque animam dubia sub morte fatigat.","t":"Yet, though he bore in a human body the mortal limbs\nhe took from his mother, it was not hidden\nthat Christ was God, because a city set on a mountain\nis never hidden, nor is a burning lamp put under a bushel,\nbut, scattering its panting flame higher,\nit gives light to all: for, shining with ample brightness\nbefore three disciples as witnesses, like the fiery heat\nof the sun, turned in splendor into a heavenly form,\nhe had outshone the day with his face, and to those watching\nthe white form of snow shone from the Lord's very garment.\nO sublime merit of the three, who were given\nto see in the world what was not entrusted to the world!\nWhat of their seeing both Elijah and glorious Moses?\nThey saw them, unknown to their eyes, by the light of the heart,\nso that our faith may be greater: that he is through the world\nthe beginning and the end, that he is to be seen as A, he as Ω.\nAround him in the middle such prophets shone,\none still living, the other standing at the boundary of life.\nAnd with a starry sound, saying “This is my Son,”\nthe Father's voice showed by its word Christ his begotten.\nAfter his power, returning through his bodily limbs,\nhad covered the adored form with the veil of flesh,\nand the Lord had given himself openly to the peoples, look, suddenly\na humble man, his eyes cast down and his face sad,\ncomes forward and, a suppliant, stretches out his hands and arms\nand implores, groaning: “I have one son, one only,\nLord, whom a spirit tears with horrible fury\nand does not leave, except to plunge him into water or overwhelm him\nin black fires, and it wears out his soul in a doubtful death.","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 3.273 (CSEL 10:85lines 273–301–87; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/3-273)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/3.302":{"o":"Hunc, precor, expulso miseratus utrumque furore\nRedde mihi uel redde sibi, ne caeca potestas\nExpellat trepidam subtracto lumine uitam.\nDixerat et genua amplectens genibusque uolutans\nHaerebat; Dominusque pio iam pectore uotis\nAdnuerat. tunc praedo furens ac noxius hostis,\nCui possessa diu est alieni fabrica iuris,\nPeruasa migrare domo conpulsus, in iram\nTollitur accensam correptaque carpere membra\nNititur et frustra Domino prohibente laborans\nFugit in obscuras puero uiuente tenebras.\nRex etiam solus regum et Dominus dominantum\nNon dedignatus Petro piscante tributum\nSoluere Caesareum, medii de gurgite ponti\nHamum ferre iubet gerolum didragmatis aurei.\nIncola mox pelagi pendentia fila momordit,\nIussa tributa ferens, grauiorque onerante metallo\nVilis honor piscis pretio maiore pependit.\nDiscipulisque suis se percontantibus, aulae\nCaelestis regni quis possit maior haberi:\nVt Deus et doctor mirabilis: omnibus, inquit,\nCelsior est humilis cunctisque potentior ibit\nQui cunctis subiectus erit seseque minorem\nDimissa ceruice feret, uelut iste uidetur\nParuulus (et monstrat puerum consistere paruum);","t":"Have pity, I pray, drive out the madness and restore him\neither to me or to himself, lest the blind power\ndrive out his trembling life and take away the light.”\nHe had spoken, and, embracing his knees and rolling at his knees,\nhe clung to him; and the Lord with kindly heart had already\nassented to his prayers. Then the raging robber, the harmful enemy,\nwho had long possessed a building that by right belonged to another,\nforced to leave the house he had invaded, is lifted up\ninto blazing anger and strives to tear the limbs he had seized,\nand, laboring in vain as the Lord forbids,\nflees into dark shadows, the boy still living.\nThe King too, the only King of kings and Lord of lords,\nnot disdaining to pay Caesar's tribute\nthrough Peter's fishing, bids the hook bring up from the depth of the sea\na carrier of a golden didrachma.\nSoon a dweller of the sea bit the hanging line,\nbearing the tribute commanded, and, heavier for the burden of metal,\nthe cheap honor of a fish was worth a greater price.\nAnd when his disciples asked him who could be held\ngreater in the hall of the heavenly kingdom,\nhe answered as God and wonderful teacher: “Higher than all,” he says,\n“is the humble, and he will go more powerful than all\nwho is subject to all and bears himself as lesser\nwith bowed neck, as this one is seen to be\na little one” (and he shows a small boy standing there);","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 3.302 (CSEL 10:87lines 302–326–89; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/3-302)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/3.327":{"o":"Scilicet ingenium teneri sectemur ut aeui\nNon annis, sed mente iubet, quia mollior aetas\nNil pompae mundalis amat, non ambit honorem,\nNec resupina tumet: sic purae semita uitae\nQuantum prona solo, tantum fit proxima caelo.\nMens etenim uergens altum petit altaque uergit,\nInferiorque gradus quo uult discendere surgit.\nEcce humilem Dominus de stercore tollit egentem\nEt facit egregios inter residere tyrannos:\nAt contra tumidum pugnaci mente rebellem\nPraecipitem caelo sub tartara iussit abire.\nParua loquor ei facta Dei per singula curram\nEt speciale bonum, cum sit generale, reuoluam.","t":"that is, he bids us follow the disposition of tender age,\nnot in years but in mind, because that softer age\nloves nothing of worldly pomp, does not court honor,\nand does not swell with head thrown back: so the path of a pure life,\nthe lower it bends to the ground, the nearer it comes to heaven.\nFor the mind that bends down seeks the heights, and the heights bend down,\nand the lower step rises where it wishes to descend.\nLook, the Lord lifts the humble needy man from the dung\nand makes him sit among the great rulers:\nbut, on the other hand, the swollen rebel with his combative mind\nhe commanded to go headlong from heaven down to Tartarus.\nI would be speaking of small things if I ran through God's deeds one by one\nand unrolled a particular good when the good is general.","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 3.327 (CSEL 10:89lines 327–339–90; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/3-327)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/3.50":{"o":"Iam procul a terris fuerat ratis actaque flabris\nSulcabat medium puppis secura profundum,\nCum subito fera surgit hiems pelagusque procellis\nVertitur et trepidam quatiunt uada salsa carinam.\nPerculerat formido animos, seseque putabant\nNaufraga litoreis iam tendere brachia saxis.\nIpse autem placidum carpebat pectore somnum,\nMaiestate uigil, quia non dormitat in aeuum,\nQui regit Israhel neque prorsus dormiet umquam.\nErgo ubi pulsa quies cunctis lacrimantibus una\nVoce simul \"miserere citus, miserere, perimus,\nAuxilio succurre pio', nil uota moratus,\nExurgens Dominus ualidis mitescere uentis\nImperat et dicto citius tumida aequora placat.\nNon erat illa feri pugnax audacia ponti,\nIn Dominum tumidas quae surgere cogeret undas,\nNec metuenda truces agitabant flamina uires:\nSed laetum exiliens Christo mare conpulit imum\nObsequio feruere fretum, rapidoque uolatu\nMouerunt auidas uentorum gaudia pinnas.\nInterea placido transuectus marmore puppem\nLiquerat et medios lustrabat passibus agros,\nCum procul e tumulis gemino stridore ruentes\nProsiluere uiri, quos non mala daemone pauco\nSed legio uexabat atrox, nexuque cruento\nSaeua catenatis gestantes uincla lacertis.","t":"The boat was already far from land, and, driven by the winds,\nthe stern was furrowing the middle of the deep in safety,\nwhen suddenly a fierce storm rises, the sea is overturned\nby gales, and the salt waves shake the trembling keel.\nFear had struck their minds, and they thought\nthey were already shipwrecked, stretching out their arms to the rocks of the shore.\nBut he himself was enjoying calm sleep,\nwakeful in majesty, because he who rules Israel\nnever slumbers, and will never sleep at all.\nSo when his rest was broken, as all, weeping, cried together\nwith one voice, “Have mercy quickly, have mercy, we are perishing,\ncome to our aid with your kindly help,” not delaying their prayers at all,\nthe Lord, rising, commands the strong winds to grow mild\nand quicker than said calms the swollen seas.\nIt was not the fierce sea's combative daring\nthat made the swollen waves rise against the Lord,\nnor were the blasts driving fearsome, savage forces:\nbut the sea, leaping for joy at Christ, made the depths\nof the strait seethe in obedience, and the joyful winds\nmoved their eager wings in rapid flight.\nMeanwhile, carried across the calm marble surface, he had left\nthe boat and was traveling on foot through the fields,\nwhen far off, from the tombs, two men rushed out\nshrieking, harassed not by the evil of a few demons\nbut by a fierce legion, and, in a bloody bond,\nbearing cruel shackles on their chained arms.","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 3.50 (CSEL 10:68lines 50–75–70; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/3-50)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/3.76":{"o":"Angebat quoque poena duplex. heu dura furoris\nCondicio ! qui uim patitur magis ille ligatur\nTunc Domini praecepta tremens exire iubentis,\nSpiritus infelix hominem non audet adire,\nEffigiem reddit quam Christum cernit habere;\nSed pecus, inmunda gaudens lue, semper amicum\nSordibus atque olido consuetum uiuere caeno\nPro meritis petiere suis tristesque phalanges\nPorcinum tenuere gregem: niger, hispidus, horrens\nTalem quippe domum dignus fuit hospes habere.\nHinc alias Dominus pelago dilatus in oras,\nIntrauit natale solum, quo corpore nasci\nSe uoluit patriamque sibi pater ipse dicauit.\nEcce aderant uiuum portantes iamque cadauer\nBis bina ceruice uiri lectoque cubantem\nVix hominem, cui uita manens sine corporis usu\nMortis imago fuit, resolutaque membra iacebant\nOfficiis deserta suis, fluxosque per artus\nLanguida dimissis pendebant uincula neruis.\nHunc ubi uirtutum Dominus conspexit egentem\nRobore, peccatis primum mundauit ademptis,\nQuae generant augmenta malis miseroque iacenti:\nSurge, ait, et proprium scapulis adtolle grabatum,\nInque tuam discede domum. nil iussa moratus,\nCui fuerat concessa salus, uestigia linquens\nTandem aliena suis laetatur uadere plantis\nVectoremque suum grata mercede reuexit.","t":"A double punishment tormented them too. Alas, the harsh\nlot of madness! The one who suffers violence is the one more tightly bound.\nThen, trembling at the command of the Lord who orders it to come out,\nthe unhappy spirit does not dare approach a man,\nand gives back the image which it sees Christ to bear;\nbut they asked, as they deserved, for the beast that rejoices in unclean filth,\never fond of dirt and used to living in stinking mud,\nand the sad troops took over the herd of swine:\nblack, bristling, shaggy, such a guest was indeed worthy\nto have such a house.\nFrom there the Lord, carried by sea to other shores,\nentered his native soil, where he had willed to be born in the body,\nand where the Father himself had dedicated a homeland to him.\nLook: men were coming carrying a living corpse,\nfour of them on their necks, and lying on a bed\nscarcely a man, for whom life remaining without the use of his body\nwas the image of death; his loosened limbs lay\ndeserted by their duties, and through his slack limbs\nthe languid bonds hung with their sinews undone.\nWhen the Lord of mighty works saw this man lacking strength,\nhe first cleansed him, taking away his sins,\nwhich bring increase of evil to the wretched man as he lies:\n“Rise,” he says, “lift your own pallet onto your shoulders\nand go off to your house.” Delaying his commands not at all,\nhe to whom health had been granted, leaving behind others' footsteps,\nrejoices at last to walk on his own feet,\nand carried back his carrier in grateful repayment.","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 3.76 (CSEL 10:70lines 76–102–72; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/3-76)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/4.1":{"o":"Iam placidas Iordanis item transgressus harenas,\nIudaeae sectatus iter: sine nomine mixtum\nVulgus, et innumeras releuans a clade cateruas\nSuscipit infirmos et dat discedere sanos.\nNil igitur summo de se sperantibus umquam\nDifficile est conferre Deo, cui prona facultas\nArdua planare et curua in directa referre;\nEt quidquid natura negat se iudice praestat.\nNamque foramen acus sicut penetrare camelus\nMembrorum pro mole nequit, sic diues opima\nFertilitate tumens tenuem non posset adire\nCaelestis regni ducentem ad limina callem,\nNi genitor rerum (qui mundum lege cohercet\nEt nulla sub lege manet, cui condere uelle est,\nQuem frons nulla uidet, sed totum conspicit ipse)\n'Hoc inpossibile est homini' dixisset, 'at alto\nPossibile est ius omne Deo', multisque molestum\nDiuitibus tandem faceret mitescere censum.\nNam proprias bene tractat opes caeloque recondi\nThensauros uult ille suos, ubi quidquid habetur\nNon mordax aerugo uorat, non tinea sulcat,\nNec male defossum famulatur furibus aurum,\nIeiunis qui ferre cibum, sitientibus haustum,\nHospitibus tectum, nudis largitur amictum,\nSolatur nexos in carcere, perfouet aegros,\nAtque aliis largus, sibi tantum constat egenus.","t":"Now, having crossed again the calm sands of the Jordan,\nfollowing the road through Judea: a crowd mixed without name,\nand, relieving countless throngs from disaster,\nhe receives the sick and lets them go away healthy.\nNothing, then, is ever hard for the most high God to grant\nto those who hope in him, he whose ready power\nlevels the steep and brings back the crooked to straight,\nand, as judge, grants whatever nature denies.\nFor as a camel cannot pass through the eye of a needle\nbecause of the bulk of its limbs, so a rich man, swelling\nwith abundant produce, could not approach the narrow path\nthat leads to the threshold of the heavenly kingdom,\nhad not the Begetter of things (who holds the world in check by law\nand remains under no law, for whom to will is to create,\nwhom no face sees, but who himself sees all)\nsaid: “This is impossible for man, but for God on high\nall things are possible,” and made troublesome wealth\ngrow gentle at last for many rich men.\nFor he handles his riches well and wants his treasures\nstored in heaven, where whatever is kept\nno biting rust devours, no moth furrows,\nnor does badly buried gold serve thieves,\nwho gives food to the hungry, drink to the thirsty,\nshelter to strangers, clothing to the naked,\ncomforts those bound in prison, cares for the sick,\nand, generous to others, is needy only toward himself.","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 4.1 (CSEL 10:92lines 1–26; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/4-1)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/4.124":{"o":"Quodque Deo facile est homines optare nec audent.\nTalibus insignis uirtutibus ibat in urbem,\nQuae sit dicta Naim, populo uallatus opimo\nEt grege discipulum, miserum cum comminus ecce\nConspicit ecferri iuuenem gelidumque cadauer,\nPluribus exsequiis et inani funere passum\nTriste ministerium, cuius sors inuida matrem\nIamdudum uiduam gemina uiduauerat urna.\nNec remorata diu pietas, inimica doloris,\nAuxilium uitale tulit tactoque feretro\n'Surge' ait o iuuenis'; parensque in tempore dicto\nMortuus adsurgit, residensque loquensque reuixit\nAtque comes genetricis abit: nam funere torpens\nEt licet amissae passus discrimina uitae,\nNon poterat famulus Domino clamante tacere\nNec uita praesente mori. mox agmine uerso\nDeponens trepidum recidiuo tramite luctum,\nCandida felicem reuocauit pompa parentem.\nNec tibi parua salus Domino medicante, Maria,\nMultiplici laesum curauit uulnere sensum,\nQuam fera septenis rabies inuaserat armis,\nDaemonico cuneata globo; sed squameus anguis\nImperiosa sacri fugiens miracula uerbi\nCorde tuo depulsus abit uolucresque per auras\nIn chaos infernae lapsus penetrale gehennae\nSeptem ingens gyros, septena uolumina traxit.","t":"and what is easy for God, men do not even dare to wish for.\nDistinguished by such mighty works, he was going into the city\ncalled Nain, surrounded by a great crowd\nand a band of disciples, when, look, close by he sees\na wretched young man being carried out, a cold corpse,\nthe sad service having already suffered many funerals\nand an empty burial; an envious fate had widowed\nhis mother, long since a widow, by a second urn.\nNor did kindness, the enemy of grief, delay long;\nit brought life-giving help, and, touching the bier,\n“Rise,” he said, “young man”; and, obeying the word at once,\nthe dead man rises, and, sitting up and speaking, came back to life\nand goes off as his mother's companion: for, though numb in death\nand though he had suffered the loss of his life,\nthe servant could not stay silent when the Lord called,\nnor be dead when Life was present. Soon, the procession turned about,\nlaying down its trembling grief on the road back,\na white procession brought back the happy mother.\nNor was it a small healing for you, Mary, when the Lord treated you;\nit cured your mind, hurt by many wounds,\nwhich a fierce rage had invaded with sevenfold arms,\nwedged in a demonic mass; but the scaly serpent,\nfleeing the commanding miracles of the holy word,\ndriven from your heart, goes off and, through the flying air\nslipping into the chaos, the inner chamber of hellish Gehenna,\ndragged its seven huge coils, its sevenfold folds.","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 4.124 (CSEL 10:99lines 124–149–101; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/4-124)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/4.150":{"o":"Neue redundantem cumulato germine messem\nExiguis Dominus sineret languere colonis,\nDiscipulosque alios, quorum mens conscia recti\nPuraque simplicitas numero meritoque refulgens\nAurea libra fuit, uelut agnos praecipit inter\nSanguineos properare lupos 'adsumite' dicens\niura potestatis, nullum metuatis ut hostem;\nVipereasque minas et scorpion atque inimicae\nOmnia uirtutis sensu calcate fideli:\nNulla meis famulis feritas aduersa nocebit.\nNec tantum hoc gaudete, uiri, quod spiritus ater\nSubiaceat uobis, quantum quod nomina uestra\nScribat in aeterno caelestis littera libro'.\nIus est quippe Dei uitam praeponere factis.\nNam merito cessante bono miracula nil sunt,\nQuae faciunt plerumque mali, quibus arbiter orbis\n'Nescio uos' dicturus erit, 'discedite cuncti\nArtifices scelerum, rebus qui semper iniquis\nDiuinum simulastis opus'. sic tempore Moysi\nCarminibus quidam uanae Memphitis in oris\nSigna dabant non sponte Dei, sed imagine falsa\nVisibus humanis magicas tribuere figuras.\nPost Pharisaeorum cuiusdam principis intrat,\nClarificare domum, non escam sumere tantum,\nAd quam tunc facili conuenerat ille precatu.","t":"And lest the Lord let the harvest, overflowing with heaped growth,\nlanguish with too few laborers,\nhe commands other disciples, whose mind, aware of right,\nand pure simplicity, shining in number and merit,\nwere a golden balance, to hasten like lambs among\nbloodthirsty wolves, saying: “Take\nthe rights of power, so that you fear no enemy;\ntread underfoot with faithful mind the threats of vipers and the scorpion\nand all things of the hostile power:\nno hostile savagery will harm my servants.\nDo not rejoice so much, men, that the black spirit\nis subject to you, as that the heavenly letter\nwrites your names in the eternal book.”\nFor it is God's rule to put life before deeds.\nFor when good merit is lacking, miracles are nothing,\nwhich wicked men often perform, to whom the judge of the world\nwill say: “I do not know you; depart, all you\ncraftsmen of crimes, who in deeds always wicked\nhave counterfeited the work of God.” So in the time of Moses\ncertain men, on the shores of vain Memphis, by their spells\nproduced signs, not by God's will, but by a false image\ngave magic shapes to human eyes.\nAfterwards he enters the house of a certain ruler of the Pharisees,\nto honor the house, not only to take food,\nto which he had come then at an easy request.","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 4.150 (CSEL 10:101lines 150–174–103; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/4-150)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/4.175":{"o":"Hic homo perspicuo distentus uentre tumebat\nPlenus aquae grauidamque cutem suspenderat aluus,\nInclusam paritura necem; iam membra fluebant\nAdcrescente sinu, miserosque infusa per artus\nTurgida perflatum macies tenuauerat aegrum,\nInque uteri spatium totus conuenerat hydrops.\nNon tulit hanc speciem mundi Pater, et sua transit\nSabbata non curans, hominem curare paratus\nQuem uoluit magis esse suum: nam sabbata propter\nCondita sunt hominem, 'non est homo sabbata propter.\nTunc pius umentem siccata corporis unda\nIussit abire luem: fluuidus mox uiscera morbus\nDeserit et uacuae resident in pectore fibrae,\nCarnalemque lacum pestis lymphata reliquit.\nCoeperat interea Dominus Galilaea per arua\nTransgrediens sancto quoddam pede tangere castrum.\nHunc procul ut uidere decem maculosa gerentes\nLeprosi portenta uiri, quos corpore foedo\nDiscolor obscenis turpabat poena figuris,\nPraeceptor, miserere, potes namque omnia, Iesu'\nClamantes dixere simul: tunc flexa potestas,\nQuae numquam pietate uacat, clementior infit:\nIte, sacerdotum conspectibus ora referte.","t":"Here a man was swelling, distended with a transparent belly,\nfull of water, and his belly had stretched the pregnant skin,\nabout to give birth to an enclosed death; already his limbs were melting\nas his belly grew, and a swollen wasting, poured through his wretched limbs,\nhad thinned the bloated sick man,\nand the whole dropsy had gathered into the space of his belly.\nThe Father of the world could not bear this sight, and he passes over his Sabbath\nnot caring for it, ready to care for the man\nwhom he wished rather to be his own: for the Sabbath was made\nfor man, not man for the Sabbath.\nThen, kindly, drying up the body's flood, he bade the watery\nplague depart: soon the flowing disease leaves the inner parts,\nand the emptied fibers settle in the chest,\nand the watery plague left the lake of the flesh.\nMeanwhile the Lord, passing through the fields of Galilee,\nhad begun to touch with his holy foot a certain village.\nWhen ten lepers saw him from afar, men bearing spotted\nportents, whom a discolored punishment disfigured\nwith obscene shapes on their foul bodies,\ncrying together they said: “Master, have mercy, for you can do all things, Jesus”:\nthen the moved power, which is never empty of kindness,\nbegins more mercifully:\n“Go, show your faces to the priests.”","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 4.175 (CSEL 10:103lines 175–197–104; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/4-175)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/4.198":{"o":"Cumque uiam peterent, subito mundata uicissim\nMirantur sua membra uiri uariumque tuentes\nEsse nihil sese pariter speculantur et omnes\nExplorant proprias alterno lumine formas.\nEx quibus ut grates ageret pro munere tanto,\nVix unus reduci conuersus tramite planta\nSternitur ad terram Dominum uirtutis adorans\nAtque sacerdoti uero sua protulit ora.\nDenique pontificum princeps summusque sacerdos\nQuis, nisi Christus, adest? gemini libaminis auctor\nOrdine Melchisedech, cui dantur munera semper\nQuae sua sunt, fructus segitis et gaudia uitis.\nCum residens caecus Timei filius illud\nPropter iter, Dominum per quod cognouerat ire,\nVociferans crebro lumen clamore petisset\nNec populo prohibente tacens, accedere iussus\nAd Dominum palpante manu, uisumque recepit\nEt nullo ducente redit. quam fortiter instat\nInportuna fides! quidquid res dura negarit,\nSola frequens uotis oratio praestat honestis.\nVnanimum panem sic ille petebat amicum,\nQui foribus clausis per opaca silentia noctis\nObnixeque diu confidenterque neganti\nVocibus adsiduis precibusque extorsit anhelis.","t":"And as they went on their way, the men suddenly marvel\nat each other's cleansed limbs, and, looking, see\nthat there is nothing mottled on one another, and all\nexamine their own forms in each other's eyes.\nOf them, to give thanks for so great a gift,\nscarcely one, turning back his steps on the return path,\nfalls to the ground adoring the Lord of power,\nand showed his face to the true Priest.\nFor who but Christ is the chief of pontiffs\nand the high priest? The author of the twofold offering\nafter the order of Melchizedek, to whom are always given\ngifts that are his own, the fruit of the grain and the joy of the vine.\nWhen the blind son of Timaeus, sitting beside the road\nby which he had learned that the Lord was passing,\nhad begged for light, shouting with repeated cries,\nand, not keeping silent when the people forbade him, was told to come\nto the Lord, groping with his hand, he received his sight\nand goes back with no one to lead him. How strongly\nimportunate faith presses! Whatever a hard situation denies,\nprayer alone, repeated with honest desires, obtains.\nSo that man was asking bread of his friend,\nwho, the doors shut, through the dark silence of the night,\nwith persistent cries and panting prayers wrung it\nfrom one who long and confidently refused.","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 4.198 (CSEL 10:104lines 198–221–106; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/4-198)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/4.222":{"o":"Praeteriensque uiae Dominus loca Samaritanae\nHumanam flagrante sitim collegerat aestu,\nFonsque perennis aquae, modicam desiderat undam,\nVt biberet qua corpus erat. tunc accola gentis\nStans mulier, paruum puteo quae traxerat haustum,\nCum dare cunctatur periturae munera lymphae,\nAgnoscens propriam numeroso coniuge uitam,\nOrat inexhausti tribui sibi dona fluenti,\nAeternam positura sitim, qua nemo carere\nDignus erit, Domini nisi mersus gurgite Christi\nPercipiat placidas animae, non corporis undas.\nDumque sui media residens testudine templi\nOre tonans patrio directi ad peruia callis\nErrantem populum monitis conuertit amicis:\nEcce trahebatur magna stipante caterua\nTurpis adulterii mulier lapidanda reatu,\nQuam Pharisaea manus placido sub iudice sistens\nCum damnare parat, plus liberat; omnibus illis\nNam simul e turbis proprie sine crimine nullus\nAccusator erat, saxum qui missile primus\nSumeret obscenae feriens contagia moechae.\nNec poterat quisquam fistucam uellere paruam\nEx oculo alterius, proprio qui lumine grandem\nSciret inesse trabem. profugus sic ille recessit\nImpetus et clemens donat sententia culpam,\nIam non peccandi sub condicione solutam.","t":"And the Lord, passing through places on the Samaritan road,\nhad taken on human thirst in the blazing heat,\nand the spring of everlasting water desires a little water\nto drink, inasmuch as he was in a body. Then a woman of that nation,\nstanding there, who had drawn a small draught from the well,\nwhen she hesitates to give the gift of perishable water,\nrecognizing her own life with its many husbands,\nbegs that the gift of the inexhaustible stream be given her,\nto lay aside her thirst forever; which no one will be worthy\nto be rid of unless, plunged into the flood of the Lord Christ,\nhe receives the calm waters of the soul, not of the body.\nAnd while, sitting in the middle of the vault of his temple,\nthundering with his Father's voice, he turns the wandering people\nto the open roads of the straight path with friendly warnings,\nlook, a woman was being dragged, a great crowd thronging,\nto be stoned for the guilt of foul adultery;\nthe band of Pharisees, setting her before a gentle judge,\nwhile preparing to condemn her, rather sets her free; for of all those\nin the crowds there was no accuser properly without sin\nto take up first a stone to throw\nand strike the defilement of the unchaste adulteress.\nNor could anyone pluck a little speck\nfrom another's eye who knew there was a great beam\nin his own. So that onrush retreated in flight,\nand the merciful sentence pardons the guilt,\nnow loosed on condition that she sin no more.","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 4.222 (CSEL 10:106lines 222–247–108; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/4-222)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/4.248":{"o":"Nam uomitum quicumque suum canis ore relambit,\nNec ueterem studet hic ueniam nec habere futuram,\nHuius damna tenens, huius conpendia perdens.\nInde means genitum cernit considere caecum,\nQui male praegnantis dilapsus uentre parentis\nIn lucem sine luce ruit. tunc sanguinis ille\nConditor humani mundique orientis origo,\nInperfecta diu proprii non passus haberi\nMembra operis, natale lutum per claustra genarum\nInliniens hominem ueteri de semine supplet.\nNec uisum tamen ante capit, quam uoce iubentis\nAccepta Domini Siloam uenisset ad undam\nEt consanguinei tutus medicamine limi\nPura oculos fouisset aqua. mox ergo gemellae\nVultibus effulgent acies tandemque merentur\nIgnotum spectare diem. cognoscite cuncti,\nMystica quid doceant animos miracula nostros.\nCaeca sumus proles miserae de fetibus Euae,\nPortantes longo natas errore tenebras.\nSed dignante Deo mortalem sumere formam\nTegminis humani, facta est ex uirgine nobis,\nTerra salutaris, quae fontibus abluta sacris\nClara renascentis reserat spiramina lucis.","t":"For whoever, like a dog, licks up his own vomit\nneither cares to keep the old pardon nor to have a future one,\nholding to the losses of the one, losing the gains of the other.\nThen, going on, he sees a man sitting who was born blind,\nwho, slipping from the womb of a mother ill with child,\nrushed into the light without light. Then he, the founder\nof human blood and the origin of the rising world,\nnot suffering the limbs of his own work to remain\nlong unfinished, smearing his native clay over the enclosures of the eyelids,\nmakes the man complete from the old seed.\nYet he does not receive his sight until, having received\nthe command of the Lord, he had come to the water of Siloam\nand, safe in the healing of the clay that was his kin,\nhad bathed his eyes in the pure water. Soon, then, twin\nlights shine out in his face, and at last they deserve\nto behold the day they had not known. Know, all of you,\nwhat the mystic miracles teach our minds.\nWe are the blind offspring born of wretched Eve,\ncarrying the darkness born of long error.\nBut when God deigned to take the mortal form\nof a human covering, there was made for us from the virgin\na saving clay, which, washed in the sacred springs,\nunlocks the bright openings of the light of rebirth.","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 4.248 (CSEL 10:108lines 248–270–109; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/4-248)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/4.27":{"o":"Nec dubie in caelum substantia peruenit illa,\nQuae Christo conlata datur sub paupere forma,\nQuae damnis augmenta capit, quae spargitur ut sit,\nQuae perit ut maneat, quae uitam mortua praestat.\nPraeterea geminos Dominus considere caecos\nDum quoddam transiret iter comitante caterua\nConspicit, extinctae poscentes munera formae\nFlebilibusque uagas implentes uocibus auras.\nNec cunctata solens pietas inferre salutem,\nQuae sentit flagrare fidem, mox lumina tangens\nEuigilare iubet, quae somnus presserat ingens,\nAtque diu clausas reserans sub fronte fenestras\nIngrediente die fecit discedere noctem.\nHinc repetita sacri gradiens per moenia templi\nLumina caecatis dedit et uestigia claudis.\nTalia Dauiticam post facta reliquerat urbem\nBethaniae uicina petens, eademque reuersus\nClarescente die properabat uisere tecta.\nEcce autem mediis adstans sublimis in aruis\nFrondea ficus erat, cuius in robore nullum\nRepperit esuriens lustrato stipite pomum;\nArboreisque comis 'iam nunc ex germine uestro'\nNullus' ait 'fructus reliquum generetur in aeuum'.\nConfestim uiduata suis ficulnea sucis\nAruit et siccis permansit mortua ramis.","t":"Nor is there any doubt that the wealth reaches heaven\nwhich, given to Christ, is given in the person of a poor man,\nwhich grows by being lost, which is scattered so that it may be,\nwhich perishes so that it may remain, which, dead, gives life.\nMoreover, while the Lord was passing along a certain road\nwith a crowd accompanying him, he sees two blind men sitting,\nasking the gift of their extinguished sight\nand filling the wandering air with tearful cries.\nNor did kindness delay, accustomed to bring health\nwhere it feels faith burning; at once, touching their eyes,\nhe bids them wake, eyes that a great sleep had pressed down,\nand, unlocking the windows long closed beneath their brows,\nhe made the night depart as the day came in.\nThen, walking again within the walls of the sacred temple,\nhe gave sight to the blind and footsteps to the lame.\nAfter such deeds he had left the city of David\nmaking for nearby Bethany, and, returning,\nhe was hastening, as the day grew bright, to visit its roofs again.\nBut look, standing tall in the middle of the fields\nwas a leafy fig tree, on whose wood,\nhungry, he found no fruit when he searched the trunk;\nand to the tree's foliage he said: “From your shoots, from now on,\nlet no fruit be produced for the rest of time.”\nAt once the fig tree, widowed of its sap,\ndried up and remained dead with withered branches.","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 4.27 (CSEL 10:92lines 27–51–94; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/4-27)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/4.271":{"o":"Bethaniaeque solum repetens intrarat; ibique\nLazarus occidua tumulatus sorte iacebat\nIam quarto sine luce die claususque sepulchri\nMarmore corruptum tabo exalabat odorem.\nFlebant germanae, flebat populatio praesens,\nFlebat et Omnipotens, sed corpore, non deitate\nExanimosque artus illa pro parte dolebat,\nQua moriturus erat; lacrimis impleuit amicum,\nMaiestate Deum. quid credere, Martha, moraris?\nQuidue, Maria, gemis? Christum dubitatis, an unum\nPossit ab infernis hominem reuocare cauernis,\nQui dabit innumeras post funera surgere turbas?\nErgo ubi clamantis Domini sonuit tuba dicens\n'Lazare, perge foras': magno concussa pauore\nTartara dissiliunt, herebi patuere recessus,\nEt tremuit letale chaos, mortisque profundae\nLex perit, atque anima proprias repente medullas\nCernitur ante oculos uiuens adstare cadauer.\nPostque sepulchralem tamquam recreatus honorem\nIpse sibi moriens et postumus extat et haeres.\nVtque caduca uagi contemnens culmina saecli\nMonstraret se rite Deum, non curribus altis,\nQui pompae mortalis honor, rapidisque quadrigis\nPuluereum sulcauit iter nec terga frementis\nArdua pressit equi, faleris qui pictus et ostro\nOra cruentatum mandentia concutit aurum:","t":"And, returning to the soil of Bethany, he had entered it; and there\nLazarus lay buried by the lot of death,\nalready on the fourth day without light, and, shut in the marble\nof the tomb, he gave off the smell of corruption.\nHis sisters wept, the people present wept,\nthe Almighty wept too, but in his body, not in his Godhead,\nand he grieved over the lifeless limbs in that part of himself\nin which he would die; by his tears he fulfilled the friend,\nby his majesty the God. Why, Martha, do you delay to believe?\nOr why, Mary, do you groan? Do you doubt whether Christ\ncan call back one man from the caverns of the underworld,\nhe who will grant countless crowds to rise after death?\nSo when the trumpet of the Lord sounded, crying\n“Lazarus, come out”: shaken with great fear,\nTartarus bursts apart, the recesses of Erebus lay open,\ndeadly chaos trembled, and the law of deep death\nperishes, and the soul suddenly seeks its own marrow,\nand the corpse is seen standing alive before their eyes.\nAnd after a burial's honors, as though created anew,\nhaving died for himself he stands as both his own posthumous son and heir.\nAnd so that, despising the fleeting heights of the wandering world,\nhe might show himself truly God, not in a lofty chariot,\nthe honor of mortal pomp, nor with swift four-horse teams\ndid he furrow the dusty road, nor press the tall back\nof a snorting horse, which, decked with trappings and purple,\nshakes its head, champing bloody gold:","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 4.271 (CSEL 10:109lines 271–296–111; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/4-271)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/4.297":{"o":"Sed lento potius gestamine uilis aselli\nRectori suffecit honos, lenis ungula cuius\nVt tanto sessore decus mirabile portans\nNobilior sub fasce foret, non illius inpar,\nQui patulo Christum licet in praesepe iacentem\nAgnouit tamen esse Deum. plebs omnis adorans\nIn solido molles subiecit tramite uestes.\nDicite, gentiles populi, cui gloria regi\nTalis in orbe fuit? cui palmis compta uel umquam\nFrondibus arboreis laudem caelestibus ymnis\nObuia turba dedit? Domino nisi cum Patre Christo,\nQui regit aetherium princeps in principe regnum.\nCui sanctus semper conregnat Spiritus aeque.","t":"but rather the honor of riding slowly on a humble donkey\nsufficed the ruler, whose gentle hoof,\ncarrying the wonderful glory of so great a rider,\nwould be the nobler for its burden, not unequal to that beast\nwhich, though Christ lay in the open manger,\nnevertheless knew him to be God. All the people, adoring,\nspread soft garments on the hard road.\nTell me, pagan peoples, what king has had such glory\nin the world? To whom has a crowd coming to meet him, decked with palms\nor with branches of trees, ever given praise in heavenly hymns?\nTo none but the Lord Christ, with the Father,\nwho rules the heavenly kingdom as Prince in the Prince,\nwith whom the Holy Spirit ever reigns equally.","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 4.297 (CSEL 10:112lines 297–309; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/4-297)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/4.52":{"o":"Omnis enim quicumque Deo nil fertile nutrit,\nCeu sterilis truncus lignis aequabitur ustis.\nAt iustus palmae similis florebit amoenae,\nSemper habens frondes et tamquam Libana cedrus\nMultiplicandus adest et uertice sidera tanget.\nPost oblatus ei uirtutem sensit erilem\nInsanus sermone carens, quem faucibus artis\nAngebat uis clausa mali, uitiumque tacendo\nProdiderat. sed cuncta solens infirma leuare\nConditor obsessa pepulit de fauce latronem\nEt uoci patefecit iter nexuque soluto\nMuta diu tacitas effudit lingua loquellas.\nPost Dominus Pharisaea petens conuiuia cenae\nOrantis dapibus sese inpertiuit amici.\nTunc mulier, quam fama nocens et plurima uitae\nMordebant delicta suae, clementia supplex\nConruit amplectens uestigia, quaeque profusis\nInrigat incumbens lacrimis, et crine soluto\nNec tergere sacras nec cessat lambere plantas\nVnguento flagrante fouens, sententia donec\nLata Dei, quem ferre manum non poenitet umquam,\nSi nos poeniteat ueterem quaesisse ruinam,\n'Vade, fides, mulier, tua te saluauit ab omni'\nDixisset, quodcumque mali gessisse uideris:","t":"For everyone who nourishes nothing fruitful for God\nwill be counted, like a barren trunk, with the burnt wood.\nBut the just will flourish like the lovely palm,\nalways in leaf, and like the cedar of Lebanon\nhe will be multiplied and touch the stars with his top.\nAfterwards a madman without speech, brought to him,\nfelt the master's power; the shut-in force of evil\nwas choking him in his narrow throat, and he had shown his affliction\nby his silence. But the Creator, accustomed to lift all infirmities,\ndrove the robber from the besieged throat\nand opened a path for the voice, and, the bond loosed,\nthe tongue, long mute, poured out speech that had been silent.\nThen the Lord, going to a Pharisee's dinner,\nshared the meal of a friend who had invited him.\nThen a woman, whom an evil reputation and the many\noffenses of her life were biting, a suppliant for mercy,\nthrew herself down embracing his feet, and, bending over them,\nwaters them with streaming tears, and with her loosened hair\ndoes not cease to wipe and kiss the holy feet,\nsoothing them with fragrant ointment, until the sentence\nof God was given, who never regrets lending his hand\nif we regret having sought our old ruin:\n“Go, woman, your faith has saved you from all\nthe evil,” he said, “that you are seen to have done:","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 4.52 (CSEL 10:94lines 52–75–96; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/4-52)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/4.76":{"o":"Vtere pace mea.' Magna est medicina fateri\nQuod nocet abscondi, quoniam sua uulnera nutrit\nQui tegit et plagam trepidat nudare medenti.\nEn polluta diu, modicum purgata recessit\nPer gemitum propriique lauans in gurgite fletus,\nMunda suis lacrimis redit et detersa capillis.\nIamque Capharneae synagogam intrauerat urbis\nRite docens populos. quem cum uidisset iniquus\nHumano sub corde latens, clamore proteruo\nSpiritus infremuit 'quid nobis et tibi?' dicens,\nPerdere nos heu Christe, uenis? scio denique qui sis,\nEt sanctum cognosco Dei'; nec plura locutus\nImperio terrente tacet hominemque reliquit\nPulsus et in uacuas fugiens euanuit auras.\nSic etiam uariis finem languoribus esse\nFecit et exclusos semper reticere coegit\nDaemonas ac talem prohibet se pandere testem.\nOlim quippe ferox et nigrae mortis amator\nIlle nocens anguis, deiectus culmine caeli\nCum pompis sociisque suis omnique nefandae\nAgmine militiae, Christum, quem nouerat illic,\nConspicit in terris, uelamine carnis opertum,\nEt gemit esse homini dominum uirtutis amicum.","t":"enjoy my peace.” It is a great medicine to confess\nthat it is harmful to stay hidden, since he feeds his own wounds\nwho covers them and is afraid to bare the blow to the healer.\nSee, she who had long been defiled went away cleansed in a little while\nby her groaning, and, washing herself in the flood of her own weeping,\nshe goes back clean by her tears and wiped dry by her hair.\nAnd now he had entered the synagogue of the city of Capernaum,\nduly teaching the people. When the wicked spirit,\nhiding in a human heart, had seen him, it roared\nwith an insolent shout, saying: “What have we to do with you?\nAlas, Christ, have you come to destroy us? I know at last who you are,\nand I recognize the Holy One of God”; and, saying no more,\nit falls silent at his terrifying command and left the man,\ndriven out, and, fleeing into the empty air, vanished.\nSo too he put an end to various sicknesses,\nand always forced the demons he cast out to be silent,\nand forbids such a witness to reveal him.\nFor once that harmful serpent, fierce and lover of black death,\ncast down from the summit of heaven\nwith his pomps and his allies and the whole column\nof his unspeakable army, sees Christ, whom he had known there,\non earth, covered with the veil of flesh,\nand groans that the Lord of power is a friend to man.","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 4.76 (CSEL 10:96lines 76–98–97; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/4-76)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/4.99":{"o":"Dumque Tyri transgressus iter, Sidonia rursus\nArua legens, placidas Dominus calcaret harenas,\nCurauit gemino miserum spiramine clausum,\nQui uocem non ore dabat, non aure trahebat,\nSidereaeque manus ruptis penetralibus omnes\nAdtactu patuere fores, laetusque repente\nAudirique loquens meruitque audire loquentes.\nTu quoque uirtutis sensisti munus erilis\nProcumbens oculis, cuius in lumine Christus\nExpuit et speciem simulatae mortis ademit.\nHinc maiora docens populos caelestia uerum\nSe reserat sermone Deum turbasque frequentes,\nQuae nimis inruerant, cupiens uitare parumper\nStagna petit paruaque sedens in Simonis alno,\nLitore sistentem firmabat ab aequore plebem.\nEt dictis iam finis erat; tunc altius actam\nIn pelagus iubet ire ratem uastoque profundo\nRetia dimitti piscantia, quae nihil omnem\nClaudere per noctem uacuo potuere labore.\nSimon paret ouans et aquosis gentibus instans\nLinea claustra iacit tantumque inmanis apertos\nImpleuit captura sinus, ut praeda redundans\nTurbaret geminas cumulato pisce carinas:\nNam socia stic puppis erat. sic maxima saepe\nGaudia non ferimus propensaque uota timemus;","t":"And while the Lord, having gone the way of Tyre and passing again\nthrough the fields of Sidon, trod the calm sands,\nhe healed a wretched man shut off in two passages,\nwho uttered no voice from his mouth and took none in by his ear,\nand at the touch of the starry hand, the inner chambers broken open,\nall the doors opened, and, glad, suddenly\nhe deserved both to be heard as he spoke and to hear those who spoke.\nYou too felt the gift of the master's power,\nbent down over your blind eyes, on whose eyes Christ\nspat and took away the look of a feigned death.\nThen, teaching the peoples greater heavenly things, he reveals himself\nby his words to be true God, and, wishing for a while to avoid\nthe dense crowds that pressed too hard on him,\nhe goes to the lake and, sitting in Simon's little boat,\nwas strengthening from the water the people standing on the shore.\nAnd now his words had ended; then he bids the boat\nbe taken farther out to sea and the fishing nets\nlet down into the vast deep, nets which had been able to catch\nnothing through the whole night in empty labor.\nSimon obeys, rejoicing, and, pressing on the watery tribes,\nthrows out the linen enclosure, and so huge a catch\nfilled the open folds that the overflowing prey\nstrained two hulls with the heaped fish:\nfor there was a partner boat. So often we cannot bear\nthe greatest joys, and fear wishes too readily granted;","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 4.99 (CSEL 10:97lines 99–123–99; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/4-99)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/5.1":{"o":"Has inter uirtutis opes iam proxima paschae\nCoeperat esse dies, Domini cum gloria uellet\nPonere mortalem uiuamque resumere carnem,\nNon aliam, sed rursus eam, quam munere plenam\nLucis ab infernis releuans ad sidera duxit.\nExclamansque palam 'pater istac memet ab hora\nSaluifica, sed in hanc ideo ueni tamen horam;\nClarifica' dixit nomen tuum'. magnaque caelo\nVox resonans uenit per nubila: clarificaui,\nClarificemque iterum. quid apertius est Patre teste,\nCaelo adsertore? ac nec sic agnoscere Christum\nGens uoluit Iudaea Deum; pars esse ferebat\nHoc tonitruum, pars angelicam crepuisse loquellam.\nO gens caeca oculis, o gens durissima corde!\nNum tonitruus potuit Christum, seu angelus ullus\nAuctorem generasse suum, qui nomine Patris\nAudito responsa daret? sed ab ore Tonantis\nNatum agnoscentis, populus quo crederet adstans,\nVox emissa suo respondit consona uerbo.\nAnnua tunc sacrae celebrans per munera cenae\nPaschales ex more dapes humilemque magistrum\nSe faciens et grata suis exempla relinquens\nAdsurgit famulisque libens famulatus et omnem\nLinteolo adcinctus tantum inclinauit honorem,\nDiscipulis ut sponte lauans uestigia cunctis","t":"Amid these riches of mighty works the day of the Pasch\nhad now begun to draw near, when the glory of the Lord wished\nto lay down mortal flesh and take it up again alive,\nnot other flesh, but the same again, which, full of the gift\nof light, he raised from the underworld and led to the stars.\nAnd crying out openly, “Father, save me from this hour;\nbut for this purpose I came to this hour;\nglorify,” he said, “your name.” And a great voice\ncame resounding from heaven through the clouds: “I have glorified it,\nand I will glorify it again.” What is plainer, with the Father as witness\nand heaven as advocate? Yet not even so would the Jewish nation\nrecognize Christ as God; some said that this\nwas thunder, some that an angel's speech had crashed.\nO nation blind of eye, O nation hardest of heart!\nCould thunder, or any angel, have begotten\nChrist, its own author, so as to answer\nwhen the name of the Father was heard? But from the mouth of the Thunderer,\nwho acknowledges his Son, so that the people standing by might believe,\nthe voice sent forth answered in harmony with his Word.\nThen, celebrating by the yearly gifts of the sacred supper\nthe Paschal meal according to custom, and making himself\na humble master and leaving welcome examples to his own,\nhe rises and, willingly serving his servants, girded\nwith only a linen towel, bowed down all his honor,\nso that, of his own accord washing the feet of all the disciples,","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 5.1 (CSEL 10:115lines 1–25–116; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/5-1)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/5.101":{"o":"Namque per hos colaphos caput est sanabile nostrum,\nHaec sputa per Dominum nostram lauere figuram,\nHis alapis nobis libertas maxima plausit.\nAt senior, cui cuncta potens praedixerat auctor\nQuae uentura forent (quoniam transire nequiuit\nInfectum quod Christus ait), se prorsus adesse\nIpsius ex sociis semel ac bis terque negauit.\nEt gallus cecinit; conpleta est sanctio Christi,\nEt sensus rediere Petri: memor ille malorum\nInmemoris damnauit opus, gemituque sequente\nCulpa fugit, cedunt lacrimis delicta profusis,\nEt dulcem ueniam, fletus, generastis, amari.\nIamque dies aderat, nocturna mestior umbra,\nFlagitium uisura nouum, tenebrisque remotis\nPandebat populis Iudaeae crimina gentis.\nMox igitur Dominum Pilati ad moenia duci\nNexibus adstrictum Iudas ut uidit iniquus,\nDeriguit scelerisque sui commercia reddens\nIncassum, facti pretium, non facta reliquit.\nQuidnam etenim prodest, illic trepidare timore,\nNullus ubi timor est? aut quae confessio tetro\nLucet in inferno, cum iam demersa securis\nArboris infandae radicibus, exitialem\nQuae peperit fructum, feralia germina uertat\nFunditus et dignis pereant mala robora flammis ?","t":"For through these blows our head can be healed,\nthrough the Lord these spittings washed our form,\nby these slaps the greatest freedom was granted us.\nBut the elder, to whom the mighty Author had foretold\nall that was to come (since what Christ said could not pass\nunfulfilled), denied once, twice and three times\nthat he was at all one of his companions.\nAnd the cock crowed; Christ's decree was fulfilled,\nand Peter came to his senses: remembering his evils,\nhe condemned the deed of his forgetful self, and, as groaning followed,\nthe guilt fled, the offenses yield to streaming tears,\nand you, bitter tears, gave birth to sweet pardon.\nAnd now the day had come, sadder than the shadow of night,\nto see a new outrage, and, the darkness removed,\nit was laying open the crimes of the Jewish nation to the peoples.\nSoon, then, when wicked Judas saw the Lord\nbound with chains being led to Pilate's walls,\nhe stiffened, and, giving back in vain the proceeds of his crime,\nhe returned the price of the deed, but not the deed.\nFor what does it profit to tremble with fear there\nwhere there is no fear? Or what confession shines in foul\nhell, when the axe, already sunk into the roots\nof the unspeakable tree which bore its deadly fruit,\noverturns its funereal shoots utterly, and the evil wood perishes in the flames it deserves?","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 5.101 (CSEL 10:121lines 101–125–123; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/5-101)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/5.126":{"o":"Continuoque trucis correptus mente furoris\nSe quoque morte petit, quamquam tunc sanior esset,\nCum scelus ulcisci procurreret, ipsaque dirae\nGuttura uocis iter, cuncti quae uendere mundi\nAusa redemptorem, nodatis faucibus angens\nInfelicem animam laqueo suspendit ab alto.\nLenior ira quidem tanto pro crimine culpae,\nCunctorum cui nulla foret par poena malorum.\nExitus hic mortis tamen et sublime cadauer\nOstendit populis, quanto de culmine lapsus\nPridem discipulus qui nunc reus, alta relinquens\nSidera tartareum discenderit usque profundum;\nTunc uir apostolicus, nunc uilis apostata factus.\nAt Dominus patiens cum praesidis ante tribunal\nStaret, ut ad iugulum ductus mitissimus agnus,\nNil inimica cohors insontis sanguine dignum\nRepperiens, regem quod se rex dixerit esse\nObicit et uerum mendax pro crimine ducit.\nNec mirum si iura Dei gens perfida uitet\nImperiumque neget, lucos quae semper amauit,\nIdola dilexit; simili nam more furentes\nTunc coluere Baal, nunc elegere Barabban.\nDamnatoque pio conseruatoque proteruo\nMutauit per utrumque uiam sententia iustam:","t":"And at once, seized in mind by a grim fury,\nhe seeks his own death too, though he would then have been more sane\nhad he run forward to avenge the crime; and the very throat,\nthe path of the dread voice that dared to sell the redeemer\nof the whole world, he chokes with a knotted noose\nand hangs his unhappy soul from on high.\nA milder punishment indeed than so great a crime deserved,\nfor which no penalty of all evils would be equal.\nYet this manner of death and the corpse hanging aloft\nshowed the peoples from what height\nhe who was once a disciple and is now guilty had fallen, leaving the high stars\nand descending to the depths of Tartarus;\nthen an apostolic man, now made a vile apostate.\nBut the Lord, patient, when he stood before the governor's tribunal\nlike the gentlest lamb led to the slaughter,\nthe hostile band, finding nothing in the innocent worthy of death,\naccuses him of saying that he was a king, being a king,\nand, lying, treats the truth as a crime.\nNor is it surprising if a faithless nation shuns God's rights\nand denies his rule, a nation that always loved the sacred groves\nand cherished idols; for, raging in the same way,\nthey worshipped Baal then and chose Barabbas now.\nAnd, the righteous man condemned and the wanton one spared,\nthe sentence reversed the just course in both:","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 5.126 (CSEL 10:123lines 126–149–125; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/5-126)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/5.150":{"o":"Auctor mortis erat iussus qui sumere lucem,\nAuctor lucis erat iussus qui sumere mortem.\nCredite iam Christum, pro cunctis credite passum.\nQuid dubitatis adhuc? en sectus terga flagellis,\nSubditus obprobriis, poenas amplectitur omnes,\nNe dignus sentire necem uel latro periret.\nHeu falx torua patrum, segitem caesura nepotum,\nHeu facinus, Pilate, tuum! quot gesseris uno\nCrimina iudicio, uigili si mente notares,\nNon solas lauisse manus, sed corpore toto\nDebueras sacrum ueniae sperare lauacrum.\nCorripis insontem, sistis sub praeside regem,\nPraeponis humana Deo; qua morte teneris,\nQuod Dominum numerosa cruci per uulnera figis?\nCumque datus saeuis ad poenam Sanctus abiret\nMilitibus, uilem rubri sub tegmine cocci\nVestitur clamidem, species ut cuncta cruenta\nMortis imago foret; spinis circumdedit amplum\nNexa corona caput, quoniam spineta benignus\nOmnia nostrorum susceperat ille malorum;\nImplet arundo manum, sceptrum quia mobile terrae,\nInualidum, fragile est, uacuum, leue. moxque alienos\nDeponens habitus, proprium suscepit amictum,\nScilicet humanae positurus tegmina carnis\nEt sumpturus item, nil iam ut mutabile ferret\nPost mortem propria cum maiestate resurgens.","t":"he who was the author of death was ordered to receive the light,\nhe who was the author of light was ordered to receive death.\nBelieve in Christ now, believe that he suffered for all.\nWhy do you still doubt? See, his back torn by whips,\nsubjected to insults, he embraces all punishments,\nso that not even a robber who deserved death might perish.\nAlas, the grim sickle of the fathers that would cut down the crop of their descendants,\nalas, your crime, Pilate! If you had noted with a watchful mind\nhow many crimes you committed in one judgment,\nyou ought to have hoped for the sacred bath of pardon\nnot by washing your hands alone, but with your whole body.\nYou seize the innocent, you set a king under a governor,\nyou put the human before God; to what death are you liable,\nfor fixing the Lord to the cross with so many wounds?\nAnd when the Holy One went off to his punishment, handed to the savage\nsoldiers, he is clothed in a cheap cloak of red scarlet,\nso that the whole bloody appearance might be the image\nof death; a woven crown of thorns encircled his great head,\nbecause he in his kindness had taken on himself\nall the thorn-thickets of our evils;\na reed fills his hand, because the scepter of the earth is unsteady,\nweak, fragile, empty, light. And soon, taking off\nthe garments of others, he took his own clothing again,\nshowing that he would lay down the covering of human flesh\nand take it up again, so as to bear nothing changeable\nafter death, rising again in his own majesty,","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 5.150 (CSEL 10:125lines 150–175–127; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/5-150)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/5.176":{"o":"Humano ponens mortalem tegmine carnem.\nNec sine diuino constat moderamine gestum\nQuod uinum cum felle datum tristemque saporem\nSuscipiens tetigit labiis et ab ore remouit,\nQuippe necem paruo degustaturus amaram\nTempore, quam reduci contemnere carne pararet.\nProtinus in patuli suspensus culmine ligni,\nReligione pia mutans discriminis iram,\nPax crucis ipse fuit, uiolentaque robora membris\nInlustrans propriis poenam uestiuit honore,\nSuppliciumque dedit signum magis esse salutis,\nIpsaque sanctificans in se tormenta beauit.\nNeue quis ignoret speciem crucis esse colendam,\nQuae Dominum portauit ouans, ratione potenti\nQuattuor inde plagas quadrati colligat orbis.\nSplendidus auctoris de uertice fulget Eous,\nOcciduo sacrae lambuntur sidere plantae,\nArcton dextra tenet, medium laeua erigit axem,\nCunctaque de membris uiuit natura creantis,\nEt cruce conplexum Christus regit undique mundum.\nScribitur et titulus: Hic est rex Iudaeorum,\nQuo nihil a deitate uacet; nam caelitus actum\nHoc Hebraea refert, hoc Graeca Latinaque lingua;\nHoc docet una fides unum ter dicere regem.","t":"laying down the mortal flesh with its human covering.\nNor was it done without divine guidance\nthat, receiving the wine mixed with gall and its bitter taste,\nhe touched it with his lips and moved it away from his mouth,\nsince he was to taste bitter death for a short\ntime, which he was preparing to scorn when his flesh returned.\nAt once, hung on the top of the spreading wood,\nchanging the wrath of the ordeal by holy devotion,\nhe himself was the peace of the cross, and, making the violent wood\nglorious with his own limbs, he clothed the punishment with honor,\nand made the torture a sign of salvation instead,\nand, sanctifying the very torments in himself, blessed them.\nAnd lest anyone not know that the form of the cross is to be revered,\nwhich bore the Lord in triumph, by a mighty reasoning\nit gathers to itself the four regions of the square world.\nThe East shines bright from the head of the Author,\nhis holy feet are licked by the western star,\nhis right hand holds the North, his left raises up the middle axis,\nand all nature lives from the limbs of the Creator,\nand Christ rules the world, embraced by the cross, on every side.\nThe title too is written: This is the King of the Jews,\nin which nothing lacks divinity; for what was done by heaven's will\nthis the Hebrew, this the Greek and the Latin tongue proclaim;\nthis one faith teaches: to say three times one king.","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 5.176 (CSEL 10:127lines 176–199–129; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/5-176)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/5.200":{"o":"Huius in eiuuiis sors mittitur, ut sacra uestis\nIntemerata manens a Christo scisma uetaret.\nQuin etiam insonti latere ex utroque cruentos\nConstituere uiros, meritum licet omnibus unum\nNon faciat similis quamuis sententia; namque\nInter carnifices sancto pendente latrones\nPar est poena trium, sed dispar causa duorum.\nHi mundo sunt quippe rei pro crimine multo,\nHuic reus est mundus, saluatus sanguine iusto.\nSuppliciisque tamen rerum dominator in ipsis\nIura potestatis non perdidit: aequus utrumque\nIudex namque tuens hunc eligit, hunc reprobauit,\nAmborum merita praecelso examine pensans.\nVnus enim, quem uita ferox nec morte reliquit,\nIn Dominum scelerata mouens conuicia dictis\nMordebat propriis et tamquam setiger hircus\nOre uenenoso uitem lacerabat amoenam:\nAlter adorato per uerba precantia Christo\nSaucia deiectus flectebat lumina, tantum\nLumina, nam geminas arcebant uulnera palmas.\nQuem Dominus ceu pastor ouem deserta per arua\nColligit errantem secumque abducere gaudet.\nIn campos, paradise, tuos, ubi flore perenni\nGramineus blanditur ager, nemorumque uoluptas\nInriguis nutritur aquis, interque benigne\nConspicuos pomis non decipientibus hortos\nIngemit antiquum serpens habitare colonum.","t":"Lots are cast for his garments, so that the sacred robe,\nremaining untouched, might forbid schism from Christ.\nMoreover, on either side of the innocent one they set\nbloodstained men, though the same sentence does not make\none merit for all; for among the executioners,\nthe Holy One hanging between robbers,\nthe punishment of the three is equal, but the cause of two of them is different.\nFor these are guilty before the world for many crimes;\nto this one the world is guilty, saved by his just blood.\nAnd yet even in the punishments the Ruler of all\ndid not lose the rights of power: for as a just\njudge, looking on both, he chose this one and rejected that one,\nweighing the merits of both in a lofty trial.\nFor one, whose fierce life did not leave him even in death,\nhurling wicked insults at the Lord,\nwas biting with his own words, and like a bristly goat\nwas tearing the lovely vine with venomous mouth:\nthe other, having adored Christ with words of prayer,\nbent down his wounded eyes, cast down, only\nhis eyes, for wounds held back both his hands.\nHim the Lord, like a shepherd, gathers up, a straying sheep\nthrough the desert fields, and rejoices to lead him with him\ninto your fields, paradise, where with everlasting flowers\nthe grassy field delights, and the pleasure of the groves\nis nourished by watering streams, and among gardens kindly\nfamous for fruits that do not deceive\nthe ancient serpent groans that a settler now dwells.","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 5.200 (CSEL 10:129lines 200–226–131; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/5-200)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/5.227":{"o":"Ambo igitur uarium diuerso calle latrones\nAdgressi facinus uiolentum grande patrarunt.\nInfernas adit ille fores, adit iste supernas;\nIlle profunda sequens penetrauit claustra gehennae,\nAbstulit iste suis caelorum regna rapinis.\nInterea horrendae subito uenere tenebrae\nEt totum tenuere polum maestisque nigrantem\nExequiis texere diem; sol nube coruscos\nAbscondens radios, tetro uelatus amictu,\nDelituit tristemque infecit luctibus orbem.\nHunc elementa sibi meruerunt cernere uultum,\nAuxiliis orbata patris, laetata per ortum,\nMaesta per occasum. nam lux ut tempore fulsit\nNascentis Domini, sic hoc moriente recessit,\nNon absens mansura diu, sed mystica signans\nPer spatium secreta suum; quippe ut tribus horis\nCaeca tenebrosi latuerunt sidera caeli,\nSic Dominus clausi triduo tulit antra sepulchri.\nNec tellus sine clade fuit, quae talia cernens\nFunditus intremuit, dubioque in fine supremum\nExpauit natura modum, ne cogeret omnem\nSummus apex inferna petens succumbere molem,\nAuctoremque sequens per tartara mundus abiret.\nSed pietas inmensa uagas properabat ad umbras,\nPerdita restituens, non consistentia perdens.","t":"So both robbers, setting out on different paths, committed\na great and violent crime of different kinds.\nThat one goes to the doors below, this one to the doors above;\nthat one, following the depths, entered the prison of Gehenna,\nthis one carried off the kingdom of heaven by his robbery.\nMeanwhile a dreadful darkness suddenly came\nand held the whole sky, covering the blackening day\nwith sad funeral rites; the sun, hiding its flashing rays in a cloud\nand veiled in a foul garment, hid itself\nand stained the sad world with mourning.\nThe elements deserved to see this face of theirs,\nbereft of their Father's help, glad at his rising,\nsad at his setting. For as the light shone at the time\nof the Lord's birth, so it withdrew as he died,\nnot to stay away long, but signifying mystic secrets\nby its span; for as for three hours\nthe stars of the darkened sky lay hidden in blindness,\nso the Lord bore three days in the cave of the closed tomb.\nNor was the earth without disaster, which, seeing such things,\ntrembled to its foundations, and nature, uncertain of its end,\ndreaded the final limit, lest the highest summit,\nheading for the underworld, should compel the whole mass to fall,\nand the world, following its Author, depart through Tartarus.\nBut immense kindness was hastening to the wandering shades,\nrestoring what was lost, not destroying what stands.","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 5.227 (CSEL 10:131lines 227–251–133; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/5-227)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/5.252":{"o":"Nulla tamen tanti metuerunt signa pericli\nQui Dominum fixere cruci, quin insuper haustum\nCum peteret sitiens, unus de plebe nefanda\nPeniculo infusum calamo porrexit acetum.\nManzeribus populis in deteriora uolutis\nConueniens liquor ille fuit; nam dulcia uina\nSicut in horrendum cum conuertuntur acetum,\nA mensis proiecta iacent: ita tempore prisco\nGens accepta Deo, nunc est odiosa propago.\nErgo ubi cuncta boni conpleta est passio Christi,\nIpse animam proprio dimisit corpore sanctam,\nIpse iterum sumpturus eam, quia mortuus idem,\nIdem uiuus erat membris obeuntibus in se,\nNon obeunte Deo, cuius uirtute retrorsum\nInfernae patuere uiae, ruptaeque fatiscunt\nDiuisa conpage petrae, rediuiua iacentum\nCorpora sanctorum fractis abiere sepulchris,\nIn cineres animata suos; subitoque fragore\nIllud ouans templum, maioris culmina templi\nProcubuisse uidens, ritu plangentis alumni\nSaucia discisso nudauit pectora uelo,\nInteriora sui populis arcana futuris\nlato reseranda docens, quia lex uelamine Moyse\nTecta diu Christo nobis ueniente patescit.","t":"Yet those who fixed the Lord to the cross feared no signs\nof so great a danger; moreover, when, thirsting, he asked\nfor a drink, one of the unspeakable crowd\nheld out vinegar soaked in a sponge on a reed.\nThat liquid suited bastard peoples who had turned to the worse;\nfor as sweet wines, when they are turned into horrible vinegar,\nlie thrown out from the tables, so the nation once\naccepted by God is now a hated offspring.\nSo when the whole passion of the good Christ was completed,\nhe himself sent forth his holy soul from his own body,\nhe himself would take it up again, because the same one was dead\nand the same one alive, his limbs dying in him\nbut God not dying; by whose power the ways of the underworld\nlay open backwards, and the rocks, their joints\nsundered, burst apart, and the bodies of the saints who lay there,\nrevived, went out from the broken tombs,\nanimated in their own ashes; and with a sudden crash\nthat temple, rejoicing to see that the summit of a greater temple\nhad fallen, like a mourning foster-child\nbared its wounded breast as the veil was torn,\nteaching that its inner secrets were …\nto be unlocked to future peoples, because the law, long covered\nby the veil of Moses, lies open to us as Christ comes.","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 5.252 (CSEL 10:133lines 252–275–134; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/5-252)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/5.26":{"o":"Nec Iudam exciperet, quem proditionis iniquae\nNouerat auctorem. sed nil tibi gloria, saeue\nTraditor, illa dabat pedibus consistere mundis,\nQui sensu pollutus eras uelut omne sepulchrum\nExteriora gerens albae uelamina formae,\nSordibus interius foedoque cadauere plenum.\nNec Dominum latuere doli, scelerisque futuri\nProdidit auctorem, panem cui tradidit ipse\nQui panis tradendus erat: nam corporis atque\nSanguinis ille sui postquam duo munera sanxit\nAtque cibum potumque dedit, quo perpete numquam\nEsuriant sitiantque animae sine labe fideles:\nProtinus in Iudam, sedes ubi liuor habebat,\nSpiritus intrauit teterrimus armaque sumens\nIn Dominum seruile dedit consurgere bellum,\nPactus grande nefas quauis mercede: neque illi\nCulpa datur pretio, sed inhaerent crimina facto.\nTantundem sceleris ter dena nomismata sumens\nArgenti paruo caecatus munere gessit,\nQuantum cuncta simul terrarum regna marisque\nDiuitias omnemque uagis cum nubibus aethram\nSi caperet, gesturus erat: neque enim bona mundi\nSufficerent magni fuso pro sanguine Christi,\nQui pater est mundi, qui fecerat hunc quoque nasci.","t":"he did not except even Judas, whom he knew to be the author\nof wicked betrayal. But that glory gave you nothing, cruel\ntraitor, to stand on clean feet,\nyou who were polluted in mind, like every tomb\nthat wears outwardly the covering of a white form\nand is full within of filth and a foul corpse.\nNor did the plot escape the Lord, and he revealed the author\nof the coming crime, to whom he himself handed bread,\nhe who was the bread to be handed over: for after he had established\nthe two gifts of his body and his blood\nand had given the food and drink by which faithful souls without stain\nshall never hunger or thirst for all eternity,\nat once the foulest spirit entered Judas, where envy had its seat,\nand, taking up arms,\nraised a servile war against the Lord,\nhaving bargained the great wickedness for any price at all: nor is\nhis guilt measured by the price, but the crimes cling to the deed.\nTaking thrice ten coins of silver, blinded by a small reward,\nhe committed as great a crime\nas he would have committed if he had taken all the kingdoms\nof the earth, the riches of the sea, and the whole sky with its wandering clouds:\nfor the goods of the world would not suffice\nas a price for the shed blood of the great Christ,\nwho is the father of the world, who had made even Judas to be born.","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 5.26 (CSEL 10:116lines 26–49–117; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/5-26)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/5.276":{"o":"Dic ubi nunc tristis uictoria, dic ubi nunc sit\nMors stimulus horrenda tuus, quae semper opimis\nInsaturata malis cunctas inuadere gentes\nPoenali dicione soles? en pessima, non tu\nPeruenis ad Christum, sed Christus peruenit ad te,\nCui licuit sine morte mori quique omnia gignens,\nOmnia constituens te non formauit ut esses:\nSemine uipereo culpa genetrice crearis\nEt uenia regnante peris. iam spiritus artus\nLiquerat ad tempus, patulo iam frigida ligno\nViscera pendebant, et adhuc furor arma ministrat:\nCuspide perfossum uiolat latus, eque patenti\nVulnere purpureus cruor et simul unda cucurrit.\nHaec sunt quippe sacrae pro religionis honore:\nCorpus sanguis aqua tria uitae munera nostrae.\nFonte renascentes, membris et sanguine Christi\nVescimur atque ideo templum deitatis habemur,\nQuod seruare Deus nos annuat inmaculatum,\nEt faciat tenues tanto mansore capaces.\nErgo ubi depositi thesaurum corporis amplum\nNobilis accepit Domino locus ille iacente,\nNobilior surgente tamen, generatio fallax\nAugebat sub corde nefas, quod nocte silenti\nDiscipuli Christum raperent et abisse referrent\nTer redeunte die, sicut praedixerat ipse.","t":"Tell me where your sad victory is now, tell me where now,\nDeath, your horrible sting is, you who, never sated\nwith rich evils, are accustomed to invade all nations\nwith your penal rule? Look, most wicked one, you do not\nreach Christ, but Christ reaches you,\nhe who could die without death, and who, begetting all things\nand establishing all things, did not form you to exist:\nyou were created from the viper's seed, with guilt as your mother,\nand you perish as pardon reigns. Already the spirit had left\nthe limbs for a time, already the cold body hung\non the spreading wood, and still fury supplies arms:\nit violates his side, pierced with a spear point, and from the open\nwound purple blood ran, and water with it.\nFor these are, for the honor of holy religion,\nthe body, the blood, the water: three gifts of our life.\nReborn from the font, we feed on the limbs and the blood of Christ,\nand therefore we are counted a temple of the Godhead;\nmay God grant us to keep it undefiled,\nand make us, slight as we are, able to hold so great an indweller.\nSo when that noble place received the rich treasure\nof the body laid in it, the Lord lying there,\nbut nobler still when he rose, the deceitful generation\nwas nursing wickedness in its heart: that in the silent night\nthe disciples would steal Christ away and report that he had gone\nwhen the third day came round, as he himself had foretold.","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 5.276 (CSEL 10:134lines 276–300–136; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/5-276)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/5.301":{"o":"Quo stimulante metu uigilum munimina poscunt\nPlura dari saeuaque locum obsidione teneri.\nSi nondum post uincla crucis, post uulnera ferri,\nPost obitum mortis numerosa caede cruentum,\nCarnifices, implestis opus nec creditis illum,\nQui totiens imis animas produxit ab umbris,\nPosse suam reuocare magis: peioribus aptos\nConsiliis armate dolos, signate sepulchrum,\nPonite custodes, monumento aduoluite saxum.\nQuis poterit seruare Deum, cui cardine rerum\nCuncta patent? undis habitat, per tartara regnat,\nEt caeli de nube tonat. quid, saeue tumultus,\nExcubiis deperdis opus? quid niteris illam\nExplorare fidem, cui non uis credulus esse?\nCoeperat interea post tristia sabbata felix\nInradiare dies, culmen qui nominis alti\nA Domino dominante trahit primusque uidere\nPromeruit nasci mundum atque resurgere Christum.\nSeptima nam Genesis cum dicit sabbata, claret\nHunc orbis caput esse diem, quem gloria regis\nNunc etiam proprii donans fulgore tropaei\nPrimatum retinere dedit. hoc luminis ortu\nVirgo parens aliaeque simul cum munere matres\nMessis aromaticae notum uenere gementes\nAd tumulum uacuumque uident iam corpore factum,\nSed plenum uirtute locum. nam missus ab astris\nAngelus amoti residebat uertice saxi,\nFlammeus aspectu, niueo praeclarus amictu.","t":"Spurred by this fear, they ask that more guards be posted\nand that the place be held under savage siege.\nIf, executioners, after the bonds of the cross, after the wounds of iron,\nafter his death, bloody with many blows,\nyou have not yet finished your work, and do not believe that he\nwho so often brought souls back from the lowest shades\ncan all the more recall his own: then arm deceits fit for worse\ncounsels, seal the tomb,\npost guards, roll a stone against the monument.\nWho will be able to guard God, to whom on the hinge of the world\nall things lie open? He dwells in the waves, reigns through Tartarus,\nand thunders from the clouds of heaven. Why, savage mob,\ndo you waste your work on watches? Why do you strive to test\nthe faith which you do not wish to believe?\nMeanwhile, after the sad Sabbath, the happy day\nhad begun to shine, which draws the height of its lofty name\nfrom the ruling Lord, and first deserved\nto see the world born and Christ rise again.\nFor when Genesis calls the seventh day the Sabbath, it is clear\nthat this day is the head of the world, to which the glory of its King,\ngranting it now the splendor of his own trophy too,\ngave it to keep the primacy. At this rising of light\nthe virgin mother, and other mothers with her, came weeping\nwith the gift of a harvest of spices to the familiar tomb,\nand see the place now empty of the body,\nbut full of power. For an angel sent from the stars\nwas sitting on top of the stone that had been rolled away,\nflaming in appearance, bright in a snow-white robe.","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 5.301 (CSEL 10:136lines 301–328–138; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/5-301)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/5.329":{"o":"Qui gemina specie terrorem et gaudia portans\nCunctaque dispensans, custodibus igne minaci\nVenerat in forma, Christum quaerentibus alba.\nIllae igitur Dominum calcata uiuere morte\nAngelica didicere fide. perterritus autem\nMiles in ancipiti retinet discrimine uitam,\nDeserta statione fugax testisque timoris\nVera refert gratis; postquam data munera, fallit\nDiscipulumque globum placidi sub tempore somni\nClam sibi nocturna Christum abstraxisse rapina\nConpositus simulator ait. fare, inprobe custos,\nResponde, scelerata cohors, si Christus, ut audes\nDicere, concluso furtim productus ab antro\nSopitos latuit, cuius iacet intus amictus?\nCuius ad exuuias sedet angelus? anne beati\nCorporis ablator uelocius esse putauit\nSoluere contectum quam deuectare ligatum?\nCum mora sit furtis contraria, cautius ergo\nCum Domino potuere magis sua lintea tolli.\nMentita est uox uana tibi. tamen ista figuram\nRes habet egregiam: Iudaeis constat ademptum\nQuem nos deuoto portamus pectore Christum.\nPlange sacerdotes perituros, plange ministros\nEt populum, Iudaea, tuum pro talibus ausis.\nNon tuba, non unctus, non iam tua uictima grata est.","t":"He, bearing terror and joy in a twofold appearance\nand dispensing all things, had come in a form of menacing fire\nto the guards, and in white to those who were seeking Christ.\nSo the women learned through the angel's faith that the Lord lives,\ndeath trodden down. But the terrified soldier\nkeeps his life in a dangerous plight,\nflees, deserting his post, and, a witness of his fear,\ntells the truth for nothing; after bribes were given, he lies,\nand, a practiced pretender, says that the band of disciples\nhad secretly stolen Christ away for themselves in a night raid\nat the time of calm sleep. Speak, wicked guard,\nanswer, criminal band: if Christ, as you dare\nto say, was brought out stealthily from the closed cave\nwithout the sleepers' noticing, whose grave-clothes lie inside?\nBeside whose discarded garments does the angel sit? Or did the one\nwho took away the blessed body think it quicker\nto unwrap him than to carry him off bound?\nSince delay is the enemy of theft, it would have been safer\nto take his linen cloths along with the Lord.\nYour empty words have lied. Yet this event holds\nan excellent figure: it is clear that the Christ whom we\ncarry in our devoted hearts was taken away from the Jews.\nLament, Judea, for your priests who will perish, lament for your ministers\nand your people, for such daring.\nNot the trumpet, not the anointed, not your victim any longer is pleasing.","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 5.329 (CSEL 10:138lines 329–353–140; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/5-329)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/5.354":{"o":"Quaenam bella tibi clanget tuba, rege perempto?\nQui tuus unctus erit, quae uerum amiseris unctum?\nVictima quae dabitur, cum uictima pastor habetur?\nDiscedat sygnagoga suo fuscata colore,\nEcclesiam Christus pulchro sibi iunxit amore.\nHaec est conspicuo radians in honore Mariae,\nQuae cum clarifico semper sit nomine mater,\nSemper uirgo manet; huius se uisibus adstans\nLuce palam Dominus prius obtulit, ut bona mater\nGrandia diuulgans miracula, quae fuit olim\nAduenientis iter, haec sit redeuntis et index.\nMox aliis conuiua potens in fragmine panis\nAgnitus enituit, quia uerus panis apertis\nSemper adest oculis, fidei quos gratia claros\nEfficit, ut Dominum uiuentem cernere possint.\nSaepe dehinc proprios diuersi temporis horis\nDiscipulos manifestus adit uescentibus illis\nExtemplo nunc ora ferens, nunc piscis obusti\nAtque faui mandens epulas, quo rite doceret\nCorporeas res esse dapes seseque uideri\nIn membris, quibus ante fuit. formidine rursus\nPlebis apostaticae, Dominum quae caeca negasset,\nCum foribus clausis resideret turba fidelis,\nPace salutantis sese intulit atque foratas\nExpediens palmas nudat latus. ast ibi Thomas,","t":"What wars will the trumpet sound for you, your king slain?\nWho will be your anointed, since you have lost the true Anointed?\nWhat victim will be offered, when the shepherd is held to be the victim?\nLet the synagogue depart, darkened by its own color;\nChrist has joined the church to himself in beautiful love.\nShe shines in conspicuous honor in Mary,\nwho, though she is ever mother by a glorious name,\nremains ever virgin; standing before her eyes\nthe Lord first showed himself openly in the light, so that the good mother,\nspreading abroad his great miracles, she who was once\nthe way of his coming, might also be the herald of his return.\nSoon, a mighty guest, he shone out and was recognized by others\nin the breaking of bread, because the true bread is always present\nto opened eyes, which the grace of faith makes clear,\nso that they can see the Lord living.\nOften after that, at hours of various times, he comes\nopenly to his own disciples while they are eating,\nnow suddenly showing his face, now eating a meal\nof broiled fish and honeycomb, so as to teach clearly\nthat the food was bodily and that he was seen\nin the limbs he had before. Again, in fear\nof the apostate people, which had blindly denied the Lord,\nwhen the faithful company was sitting with the doors shut,\nhe came in, greeting them with peace, and, showing\nhis pierced palms, he bares his side. But Thomas,","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 5.354 (CSEL 10:140lines 354–378–142; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/5-354)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/5.379":{"o":"Cui Didymo cognomen erat, cum fratribus una\nNon fuerat dubiamque fidem sub corde gerebat,\nDonec rursus eo pariter residente ueniret\nQui numquam subtractus erat. Tunc limine clauso\nConstitit in medio, non indignatus apertum\nDiscipulo monstrare latus tactuque probari\nVulneris et mentem patienter ferre labantis:\nAgnitus hinc potius, quod sit dubitantis amicus.\nQuisquis enim artifices caeca sub imagine fraudes\nInstruit et uanas cupit exercere figuras,\nNon uult agnosci, non uult sua facta requiri,\nVt lateat sub nube doli, nebulaque recludens\nOmnia sollicitos odit simulator amicos.\nGnarus item Dominus Petro piscante per aequor\nCum sociis captum esse nihil dimittere lina\nIn dextras hortatur aquas. mox gurgite clauso\nPendula fluctiuagam traxerunt retia praedam,\nPer typicam noscenda uiam: nam retia dignis\nLucida sunt praecepta Dei, quibus omnis in illa\nDextra parte manens concluditur ac simul ulnis\nFertur apostolicis Domini ad uestigia Christi.\nNec piscis prunaeque uacant et panis in uno\nDiscipulis inuenta loco. quisnam ambigat unam\nHis rebus constare fidem, quippe est aqua piscis,\nChristus adest panis, sanctusque Spiritus ignis.","t":"who was surnamed Didymus, had not been\nwith his brothers, and bore a doubtful faith in his heart,\nuntil, when he too was sitting with them, there came again\nhe who had never been taken away. Then, the door shut,\nhe stood in their midst, not disdaining to show his open side\nto the disciple and to be tested by the touch\nof the wound, and to bear patiently the wavering mind:\nrecognized all the more from this, that he is the friend of the doubter.\nFor whoever devises crafty frauds under a dark image\nand wishes to practice empty illusions\ndoes not want to be recognized, does not want his deeds examined,\nso as to lurk under a cloud of deceit, and, shutting all things up in mist,\nthe pretender hates anxious friends.\nLikewise the Lord, knowing that Peter, fishing on the sea\nwith his companions, had caught nothing, urges them to let down their nets\ninto the waters on the right. Soon, the deep enclosed,\nthe hanging nets hauled in a wave-wandering prey,\nto be understood by way of a figure: for the nets\nare the shining precepts of God for the worthy, by which all who remain\nin that right-hand part are enclosed, and are carried together\nin the apostles' arms to the feet of the Lord Christ.\nNor were fish and coals and bread lacking, found\nby the disciples in one place. Who would doubt that one\nfaith consists in these things? for the fish is in the water,\nChrist is present as the bread, and the Holy Spirit as the fire.","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 5.379 (CSEL 10:142lines 379–403–143; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/5-379)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/5.404":{"o":"Hinc etenim abluimur, hoc pascimur, inde sacramur.\nTunc epulis praeceptor eos inuitat edendis\nAlloquiis de more piis, mensamque petentes\nVnanimes nota Domini bonitate fruuntur\nEt Christum sensere suum. modicoque paratu\nPostquam uieta fames et surrexere relictis\nRite toris, an corde Petrus se diligat alto,\nExplorat Dominus; Petrus annuit. ergo nitentes\nPastor amans augere greges operario in omni\nParte bono commendat oues, commendat et agnos.\nHaec terno sermone monens, ut terna negantis\nCulpa recens parili numero purgata maneret.\nInde sequenda docens, Pacem omnes, inquit, habete,\nPacem ferte meam, pacem portate quietam,\nPacem per populos monitis dispergite sanctis\nEt mundum uacuate malis: gentesque uocari\nFinibus e cunctis, latus qua tenditur orbis,\nIussis mando meis omnesque in fonte lauari.\nHaec ubi dicta pio Dominus sermone peregit,\nBethaniae mox arua petit: coramque beatis\nQui tantum meruere uiris spectare triumphum,\nAetherias euectus abit sublimis in oras.\nEt dextra sedet ipse Patris totumque gubernat\nIure suo, qui cuncta tenens excelsa uel ima,\nTartara post caelum penetrat, post tartara caelum.","t":"For by the one we are washed, by this one fed, by that one consecrated.\nThen the teacher invites them to eat the meal\nwith kind words, as was his custom, and, coming to the table\nwith one mind, they enjoy the Lord's familiar goodness\nand knew him to be their Christ. And when, with a modest meal,\nhunger was overcome and they had risen, leaving\ntheir places in order, the Lord asks whether Peter\nloves him from the depth of his heart; Peter assents. So the loving shepherd,\nwishing to increase his shining flocks, entrusts the sheep\nto a worker good in every part, entrusts the lambs too,\ngiving this charge in threefold speech, so that the threefold guilt\nof the recent denier might remain purged by an equal number.\nThen, teaching what they must follow, he says: “Have peace, all of you,\nbring my peace, carry quiet peace,\nscatter peace among the peoples by holy admonitions\nand empty the world of evils: and I command\nthat the nations be called from all the ends of the earth, wherever the wide world stretches,\nand that all be washed in the font.”\nWhen the Lord had finished these words in kindly speech,\nhe soon goes to the fields of Bethany: and before the blessed\nmen who alone deserved to see the triumph,\nraised on high, he departs into the regions of heaven.\nAnd he sits at the right hand of the Father and governs all things\nby his own right, he who, holding all things high and low,\nentered Tartarus after heaven, and heaven after Tartarus.","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 5.404 (CSEL 10:143lines 404–428–145; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/5-404)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/5.429":{"o":"Illi autem laetis cernentes uultibus altas\nIre super nubes Dominum tractusque coruscos\nVestigiis calcare suis ueneranter adorant\nSidereasque uias alacri sub corde reportant,\nQuas cunctos doceant: testes nam iure fideles\nDiuinae uirtutis erant, qui plura uidentes\nInnumerabilium scripserunt pauca bonorum.\nNam si cuncta sacris uoluissent tradere chartis\nFacta redemptoris, nec totus cingere mundus\nSufficeret densos per tanta uolumina libros.","t":"But they, watching with glad faces as the Lord went\nabove the high clouds and trod the shining tracts\nwith his footsteps, reverently adore him\nand carry back in eager hearts the starry ways,\nto teach them to all: for they were rightly faithful witnesses\nof the divine power, who, having seen many things,\nwrote down a few of his countless good deeds.\nFor if they had wished to hand down in sacred pages\nall the deeds of the Redeemer, not even the whole world\nwould be enough to hold the crowded books in so many volumes.","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 5.429 (CSEL 10:145lines 429–438–146; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/5-429)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/5.50":{"o":"Atque utinam sterili damnatus uentre nequisset\nNatalem sentire diem, nec luminis huius\nHausisset placidas flabris uitalibus auras\nAeterno torpore latens, miseroque fuisset\nSors melior nescire datam quam perdere uitam:\nAut male fusus humo confestim munera lucis\nPerderet ut puluis, quem uentus proicit ingens\nA facie terrae rapidisque uolatibus actus\nSpargitur in uacuas nebulis obscurior umbras.\nTune cruente, ferox, audax, insane, rebellis,\nPerfide, crudelis, fallax, uenalis, inique,\nTraditor inmitis, fere proditor, impie latro,\nPraeuius horribiles comitaris signifer enses?\nSacrilegamque aciem, gladiis sudibusque minacem\nCum moueas, ori ora premis mellique uenenum\nInseris et blanda Dominum sub imagine prodis?\nQuid socium simulas et amica fraude salutas?\nNumquam terribiles aut pax coniurat in enses,\nAut truculenta pio lupus oscula porrigit agno.\nTraditus ergo uiris operator sanctus iniquis\nConsuetam non linquit opem pueroque reuulsam\nEnse Petri, ne qua pius a pietate uacaret,\nReddidit auriculam. nec enim uindicta Tonanti\nConueniens humana fuit, qui milia Patrem\nAngelicas sibimet legiones poscere posset\nPlus duodena dari, si mallet sumere poenas\nDe meritis quam sponte suas ignoscere plagas.","t":"And would that he, condemned by a barren womb, had never\nfelt his day of birth, nor drawn in the calm breezes\nof this light with life-giving breaths,\nlying hidden in eternal torpor, and it would have been\na better lot for the wretch not to know the life given than to lose it:\nor, badly poured out on the ground, would that he had at once lost the gift of light\nlike dust, which the great wind tosses\nfrom the face of the earth, and which, driven in swift flight,\nis scattered into empty shadows, darker than the mists.\nAre you, bloody, fierce, bold, insane, rebellious,\ntreacherous, cruel, deceitful, venal, unjust,\npitiless traitor, savage betrayer, impious robber,\ngoing ahead as standard-bearer and escorting the horrible swords?\nAnd when you lead on the sacrilegious band, threatening with swords and clubs,\ndo you press your mouth to his mouth, put poison into honey,\nand betray the Lord under a pleasing image?\nWhy do you pretend to be a comrade and greet him with friendly fraud?\nNever does peace conspire with terrible swords,\nnor does the savage wolf offer kisses to the gentle lamb.\nHanded over, then, to wicked men, the holy worker\ndoes not leave off his accustomed help, and to the servant he restored\nthe ear torn off by Peter's sword, lest the merciful one\nbe empty of mercy. For human vengeance did not befit\nthe Thunderer, who could ask the Father\nto give him more than twelve thousands of angelic legions,\nif he had preferred to punish what they deserved\nrather than freely forgive his own wounds.","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 5.50 (CSEL 10:117lines 50–76–120; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/5-50)."},"sedulius-carmen-paschale/5.77":{"o":"Tunc parci mucrone iubet, quia uenerat ipse\nPonere pro cunctis animam, non tollere cuiquam.\nNamque Petro clara iamdudum uoce fatenti\nCum Domino se uelle mori 'Prius aliger' inquit\n'Quam gallus cantet, hac me ter nocte negabis',\nNon reprobando fidem, sed praedicendo timorem.\nContinuo ad tristes Caiphae deducitur aedes.\nIlle sacerdotum fuerat tunc denique princeps\nEt princeps scelerum; namque hoc residente cathedra\nPestifera falsis agitatum testibus ardet\nConcilium, iam iamque uolant mendacia mille\nIn Dominum, uanis hominum conflata fauillis,\nEt pereunt leuitate sui, uelut ignis oberrans\nArentes stipulas, uires cui summa cremandi\nMateries infirma rapit, uictoque furore\nLabitur inualidae deformis gloria flammae.\nPostquam nulla dolis patuit uia, brachia tolli\nArmat in insontem saeuus furor. heu mihi quantis\nInpedior lacrimis rabidum memorare tumultum\nSacrilegas mouisse manus! non denique passim\nVel colaphis pulsare caput, uel caedere palmis,\nAut spuere in faciem plebs execranda quieuit.\nIlle tamen patiens subiecto corpore totum\nSustinuit nostraeque dedit sua membra saluti.","t":"Then he bids them spare the sword, because he had come himself\nto lay down his life for all, not to take it from anyone.\nFor when Peter had long before declared in a clear voice\nthat he was willing to die with the Lord: “Before the winged\ncock crows,” he said, “you will deny me three times this night,”\nnot reproving his faith but foretelling his fear.\nAt once he is led to the grim house of Caiaphas.\nHe was then the chief of the priests\nand the chief of crimes; for, with him presiding, the pestilent\ncouncil burns, stirred up by false witnesses, and now, now a thousand lies\nfly against the Lord, kindled from the empty embers of men,\nand they perish by their own lightness, like fire wandering\nover dry stubble, whose power to burn the weak\nmaterial snatches away at its height, and, its fury overcome,\nthe unsightly glory of the feeble flame dies down.\nWhen no way lay open for deceit, savage fury arms them\nto raise their arms against the innocent. Alas for me, with what tears\nam I hindered from telling how the raging tumult\nmoved sacrilegious hands! The accursed rabble did not cease\neverywhere to beat his head with blows, to strike him with their palms,\nor to spit in his face.\nYet he, patient, submitting his body, endured all\nand gave his limbs for our salvation.","f":"Sedulius, <i>Carm. pasch.</i> 5.77 (CSEL 10:120lines 77–100–121; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/sedulius-carmen-paschale/5-77)."}}