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Appendix I: Carmina Tertulliano adscripta, De judicio Domini

Editors' preface

Sequentia quoque Poemata sub Tertulliani nomine vulgo traduntur. Nos tantum virum tam iratas unquàm habuisse Musas non credimus. Ea tamen qualiacumque sunt, hic subjici patimur, quia lucis etiam nonnihil Tertulliano conferunt; nec procul ab illius aevo Carthagine condita videntur. Et miratores habeat etiam cum faecibus suis amphorae Punicae senectus. Rig.

The following poems also are commonly handed down under Tertullian's name. We do not believe that so great a man ever had the Muses so hostile. Yet, such as they are, we allow them to be appended here, because they too bring Tertullian some light; and they seem to have been composed at Carthage not far from his age. And let the old age of a Punic wine-jar have its admirers, even with its dregs. Rig.

INCERTI AUCTORIS DE JUDICIO DOMINI.

OF AN UNCERTAIN AUTHOR, ON THE JUDGEMENT OF THE LORD.

CAPUT PRIMUM.

CHAPTER I.

Quis mihi ruricolas aptabit carmine Musas? / Et verni roseas titulabit floribus auras? / Aestivaeque graves maturas messis aristas? / Quis dabit et tumidas autumni vitibus uvas? / Quisve hyemi placidas semper laudabit olivas? / Recludetque ipsis renovatas fontibus undas? / Frondentesque vago caedet de gramine flores? / Protinus aetherei modulabor luminis auras. / Jam mihi luciferas liceat contingere Musas, / Pandere secretas fluviali vertice lymphas; / Et laetas alio positas sub sidere sylvas, / Aeternasque simul modulabor carmine flammas, / Unde mare tumidum, immensa fluctuèt unda, / Quae virtus solidas moveatque tremiscere terras, / Et lux unde novo praefulserit aurea mundo, / Quisve hominem laeto posuisset fingere limo, / Unde genus vacuo potuisset crescere saeclo; / Et quae vivendi populo sit multa cupido, / Quaeve creata malo, moriendi quaeve propago, / Unde bonus roseis sit oderque ruborque coronis. / Quid faciat laetis ut vitis abaestuet uvis, / Et plena e teneris tendantur ut horrea culmis, / Arbor ut in glacie nigris pubescat olivis. / Germinibus quis det varii incrementa vigoris, / Mollibus et matrem pullorum protegat umbris. / Omnia nosse bonum quae sint miracula rerum, / Ut Dominum liceat per cuncta agnoscere verum, / Qui lucem maria et coelum, terramque paravit, / Ornavitque novum variato sidere mundum; / Et pecudes primum et volucres procedere jussit, / Et dedit aequoreas compleri piscibus undas, / Et foecundatas animabus cogit arenas. / Talia compositis deducam carmina Musis, / Atque salutares exponam fontibus undas, / Et laetum placidis venientem nubibus imbrem, / Inque animas hominum penitus, ultroque fluentem, / Excipiat plenis in nostra novalia rivis.

Who will fit the country-dwelling Muses to song for me? / And who will inscribe the rosy breezes of spring with flowers? / And the heavy ripe ears of the summer harvest? / Who will give, too, the swelling grapes on the vines of autumn? / Or who will praise the olives that are ever calm in winter? / And unlock the waters renewed at their very springs? / And cut the leafy flowers from the straying grass? / Straightway I shall set to measure the breezes of the heavenly light. / Now let it be granted me to touch the light-bearing Muses, / to lay open the waters hidden at the river's head; / and the glad woods set beneath another star; / and I shall set to measure in song the eternal flames as well, / whence the sea swells, [whence] the boundless wave billows, / what power moves the solid lands and makes them tremble, / and whence the golden light shone forth upon the new world, / or who had set himself to fashion man from glad clay, / whence the race could have grown in an empty age; / and what great desire of living the people has, / or what things were created by evil, or what is the offspring of dying, / whence comes the good scent and the redness of rosy garlands. / What makes the vine seethe over with glad grapes, / and the barns be stretched full from the tender stalks, / how a tree in the frost grows ripe with black olives. / Who would give to seeds the increase of varied vigour, / and shelter the mother of the young with soft shade. / It is good to know all the wonders of the world there are, / that one may through all things recognize the true Lord, / Who prepared the light, the seas and the heaven, and the earth, / and adorned the new world with the varied star; / and bade first the cattle and the birds come forth, / and granted the waters of the sea to be filled with fishes, / and compels the sands, made fruitful with living things. / Such songs shall I draw out with the Muses composed, / and set forth saving waters from the springs, / and the glad rain coming from the calm clouds, / and flowing deep into the souls of men, and of its own accord, / let it receive [them] with full streams into our fallow fields.

CAPUT II.

CHAPTER II.

Nunc age, securum vivamque adtingere lympham, / Et celeres vitam amissam reparare per undas / Si velit, aeternae et poenas evadere flammae, / Ignarusque Dei, venturique inscius aevi, / Et potius venturae adipisci praemia vitae; / Hunc unum meminisse Deum, solumque precandum, / Qui totum in libra posuit sub limine mundum, / Aeternumque manens, semperque futurus in aevum,

Come now, [let him choose] to reach the safe and living water, / and to restore the lost life through the swift waters, / if he would, and to escape the pains of the eternal flame, / though ignorant of God and unknowing of the age to come, / and rather to obtain the rewards of the life to come; / to remember this one God, and Him alone to be prayed to, / Who set the whole world in the balance beneath [His] threshold, / and remaining eternal, and ever to be for ever,

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marginal letters: A CAPUT PRIMUM. / Quis mihi ruricolas; B Quae virtus solidas; C Ut Dominum liceat / 1091 Qui lucem; D Si velit, aeternae
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other: EDITORS' MATTER: the opening prose (Rigaltius's note, signed RIG.) and the title band are printed across the full page; this column's image is cropped at the right edge, but the whole prose and the whole title (INCERTI AUCTORIS DE JUDICIO DOMINI.) were read across the images of cols. 1147 and 1148 and are set whole here, with full_width. (Q3)
other: verse lines separated by " / " within each printed paragraph (caput). Low-resolution bold face renders u as n and t as i throughout (Seqoentia, qnoque, illins, mairem): read as illius, matrem. (Q3: read across the full width; not UNSURE.)
other: column ends mid-sentence after "in aevum,"; no split word at the break. Text above the title band in the right column, if any, belongs in reading order with this full-width matter.
misprint kept as printed: "oderque" (for odorque), Caput I, line "Unde bonus roseis sit oderque ruborque coronis."; the English renders the sense (scent). (Q1)
running head: 1147 AD GENUINA TERTULLIANI OPERA 1148
marginal letters: A Saecula cuncta tenens (gutter, beside col. 1148 line 1); B Immemor ille Dei; C Jamjam primus homo; D Idcirco Dominus solus (letters stand in the gutter between the columns, beside the right column's lines)
old-edition numerals: 1091 after verum,
other: set fresh. Full-width band at the page head: Rigaltius's note signed RIG. (editors' matter) and the title, set whole here; no separate Appendix heading is printed on this page. "illius" read on the page. Reading order: full-width band, then the whole left column, then the right column (in c1148_a). Verse lines within a printed paragraph are joined on one line with " / ", the English line for line. Caput II continues at the head of col. 1148.
accents kept as printed: "unquàm" (Rigaltius's note, the visible line-start "quàm"), "fluctuèt" (Caput I, "Unde mare tumidum, immensa fluctuèt unda"; the mark reads as a grave at this resolution, possibly a diaeresis: check on the full page). (Q2)

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Saecula cuncta tenens, ante omnia saecula solus / Ingenitus, sine fine Deus, sedemque supernam / Solus habens, solus coelos supereminet altos, / Omnipotens solus, cui parent omnia rerum; / Qui sibi complacitum hominem formavit in aevum, / Pastorem pecudum, et dominum dedit esse ferarum; / Qui sermone tenus potuit protendere coelum, / Et solidam verbo potuit suspendere terram, / Et dicto citius disjunxerat aequoris undam, / Ac manibus charam dilexit fingere formam, / Atque suam voluit faciem quoque inesse decoram, / Spirituque adflavit vivendi vultibus auram.

holding all the ages, alone before all ages / unbegotten, God without end, and alone possessing / the seat on high, alone He towers above the lofty heavens, / alone almighty, Whom all things in the world obey; / Who formed for Himself man, well-pleasing to Him, for ever, / and granted him to be shepherd of the cattle and lord of the beasts; / Who by a word alone could stretch out the heaven, / and by a word could hang the solid earth, / and, quicker than speech, had parted the wave of the sea, / and with His hands was pleased to fashion the dear form, / and willed that His own likeness too should be in it, comely, / and with the Spirit breathed upon the face the breath of living.

CAPUT III.

CHAPTER III.

Immemor ille Dei, temere committere tale / Non ultra monitum quidquam contingeret unum / Unde malum sciret, pariter dignosceret aequum, / Protinus inlicitum vetuit contingere pomum. / Quanta Deus homini permisit munera mundi? / Et praedulce sui signavit pignus amoris? / Jusque dedit volucrum, pontumque solumque doman⟨d⟩um, / Utilia et charae tribuit mandata salutis. / Sub ditione dedit terras animasque volantum, / Pennatumque genus, pecudum genus omne ferarum / Et genus aequoreum, et deformia monstra natantum. / Sed quoniam primo trangressus crimine legem, / Jamjam primus homo Domini mandata reliquit, / Conjuge quae mala cuncta suasit, morte peribat. / Peccatique malum commisit femina primum, / Transgressaque suum decepit lege maritum, / Eva inducta dolo patefecit limina letho, / Et sibi cum genere procreavit funera toto, / Hinc nefas incautum, mors hinc quasi semen in aevum / Spargitur, inde magis facinus percrebuit atrox, / Atque labor corruptum agitavit saevior orbem. / Callidus hoc zelo serpens inlexit in ipso, / Inde magis populi accersunt commissa malorum. / Atque nefanda malis pepererunt semina factis.

He, unmindful of God, [was] rashly to commit such [a deed]; / that nothing beyond the one warning should befall [him] / whereby he might know evil and likewise discern the right, / He forthwith forbade [him] to touch the unlawful fruit. / How great gifts of the world did God allow to man? / And sealed a most sweet pledge of His love? / And He gave the right over the birds, and the sea and the land to be tamed, / and bestowed useful commands, and commands of dear salvation. / He gave under [his] dominion the lands and the souls of the flying things, / and the feathered race, the race of cattle, every race of beasts, / and the race of the sea, and the misshapen monsters of the swimmers. / But since by the first crime he transgressed the law, / at once the first man forsook the commands of the Lord, / and through the wife who urged all evils he was perishing by death. / And woman first committed the evil of sin, / and, having transgressed the law, deceived her husband; / Eve, led on by guile, opened the thresholds to death, / and brought forth funerals for herself with the whole race. / Hence heedless wickedness, hence death as a seed for ever / is scattered; thence fierce crime spread all the more, / and a harsher toil harried the corrupted world. / The cunning serpent by this zeal enticed [them] in the very [act]; / thence the peoples summon all the more the misdeeds of evil men, / and seeds brought forth unspeakable things by evil deeds.

CAPUT IV.

CHAPTER IV.

Idcirco Dominus solus, cui summa potestas, / Et super alta tenens summi fastigia coeli, / Altum in praecelsis habitans in saecula lumen, / Praesentisque memor, quoque praescius ante futuri, / Progeniem meriti decretum servat in aevum, / Et cunctas animas, tum corpora tarda gubernans,

Therefore the Lord alone, Whose is the supreme power, / and Who holds [His seat] above the lofty summits of the highest heaven, / dwelling for ever in the heights, a lofty light, / and mindful of the present, foreknowing also beforehand the future, / keeps for ever the decree of desert for the offspring, / and governing all souls, and then the slow bodies,

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marginal letters: A Saecula cuncta tenens; B Immemor ille Dei (letter stands just above, beside CAPUT III.); C Jamjam primus homo; D Idcirco Dominus solus (letter stands just above, beside CAPUT IV.)
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misprint kept as printed: "trangressus" (for transgressus), Caput III, line "Sed quoniam primo trangressus crimine legem,". (Q1)
running head: 1147 AD GENUINA TERTULLIANI OPERA 1148
marginal letters: A Saecula cuncta tenens; B Immemor ille Dei; C Jamjam primus homo; D Idcirco Dominus solus
old-edition numerals: 1092 after potestas,
other: set fresh. Continues Caput II from col. 1147. "doman⟨d⟩um": the line ends "do-" and the turnover is printed in brackets after the next line, read "[man-lum," with the d damaged; read as domandum, UNSURE. Verse lines within a printed paragraph are joined on one line with " / ", the English line for line. Column ends mid-sentence.

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Quae ratione movent hominem per multa vagantem; / Ut primum positi membrorum pondera cedunt; / Terrenisque leves resolutis nexibus ibunt, / Ac proprias capient diversis partibus oras / Ast alias laetis revocari protinus auris, / Servari penitus decretae ad praemia legis, / Dum motis iterum revirescant corpora membris. / Illic occultis claudentur prava tenebris. / Tunc homines primae pensare praemia vitae / Incipient, crimenque suum culpasque putare, / Et poenis retinere, procul de morte futuris, / Judiciisqne Dei memores adstare piorum, / Exspectare suam suorumque ex crimine poenam; / Funditus aut pecorum sine nomine vivere vitam, / Incassumque Deo jam surdo fundere fletum.

which by reason move man as he wanders through many things; as soon as the weights of the limbs, laid down, give way, they will also go off light, their earthly bonds loosed, and will take their own regions in different parts; but others are to be called back at once to glad airs, to be kept deep within for the rewards of the decreed law, until the bodies grow green again with limbs set in motion. There the wicked will be shut in hidden darkness. Then men will begin to weigh the rewards of their first life, and to reckon their crime and their faults, and to keep in mind the punishments to come, far removed from death, and, mindful, to stand at the judgements of God upon the pious, to await their own punishment and that of their kin for their crime; or else to live wholly the life of beasts without a name, and in vain to pour out weeping to a God now deaf.

CAPUT V.

Chapter V.

An Deus omnipotens, cujus sub lege reguntur / Omnia, non valeat post mortem reddere vitam? / Aut aliquid Dominus rerum non posse videtur? / Si potuit tenebris pulsis extendere lucem, / Atque omnem verbo subito componere molem, / Omnia de nihilo quoque voce potente parare, / Cur non ex aliquo possit componere notam, / Quae fuerat quondam, quam finxerat ante, figura? / Adsimilemque sibi jubeat resurgere formam? / Cum sint cuncta Dei, reddit magis omnia tellus, / Jussa retexet enim quidquid contexerat olim. / Si quem forte rogis abolevit flamma sepultum, / Aut aliquem caecis disjecerit aequor in undis, / Si cujusque fame satiarunt viscera pisces, / Aut fixere ferae crudelia funera membris, / Alitibus jacuit raptato corpore sanguis, / Ultima non Domino rapient sua munera magno / Apparere Deo vivos de morte necesse est, / Resumptisque suis homines adstare figuris. / Arida sic vacuis redduntur semina terris, / Et penitus fixis putrescunt mortua sulcis. / Nonne animatur et hinc reparatis culmen aristis, / Atque iterum vivis flavescunt fortia granis, / Consurguntque novae vario cum foenore messes? / Sidera cuncta cadunt, iterumque renata nitescunt. / Et dies in densa moritur cum lumine nocte, / Occidit et jam nox rebus mox luce retectis, / Jamque suis alia atque alia dies surgit ab astris, / Solque cadit, splendorifero qui lumine clarus; / Lux perit umbrato venienti vespere mundo / Et renovata suo vivit fuligine phoenix, / Et sua mox volucris (mirum) post busta resurgit. / Tempore nuda suis foliis quoque fruticat arbor, / Pomorumque iterum curvantur germine rami.

Is God almighty, under Whose law all things are ruled, not able to give back life after death? Or does the Lord of things seem unable to do something? If He could, with darkness driven away, spread out light, and by a word suddenly put together the whole mass, and also by His powerful voice make ready all things from nothing, why could He not out of something put together the known shape which had once been, which He had formed before? And bid a form like Himself rise again? Since all things are God's, the earth rather gives back all things, for at His command it will unweave whatever it had once woven. If perhaps the flame of the pyres has consumed someone buried, or the sea has scattered someone in its blind waves, if fishes have sated their hunger on anyone's entrails, or wild beasts have fixed cruel deaths upon limbs, if the blood has lain on the ground when the body was snatched away by birds, they will not snatch their last gifts from the great Lord; it is necessary that the living appear before God from death, and that men stand with their own shapes resumed. So dry seeds are given back to empty lands, and the dead things rot in deep-set furrows. Is not the stalk thence quickened, with its ears restored, and do not the strong crops grow yellow again with living grains, and new harvests rise together with varied increase? All the stars set, and, reborn, shine again. And the day dies with its light in the dense night, and the night too sets, as things are soon uncovered by the light, and now day after day rises from its own stars, and the sun sets, which is bright with light-bearing beam; the light perishes as evening comes upon a darkened world. And the phoenix, renewed, lives from its own soot, and the bird (a wonder!) soon rises again after its own pyre. In due season the tree, bare of its leaves, also puts forth shoots, and the branches are bent again with the bud of fruits.

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running head: 1149 APPENDIX I. — DE JU[cut off at image edge]
marginal letters: A ‹Quae ratione movent hominem›; B ‹Incassumque Deo jam surdo›; C ‹Si quem forte rogis›; D ‹Et dies in densa moritur›
old-edition numerals: (none)
other: verse lines joined with " / "; the column begins mid-sentence with "Quae"; "Servari" and "reguntur" are printed with damaged type but are readable; the heading "Commentarius" printed across both columns at the foot of the page is cut off and not set; the editors' commentary below it (note 77 on "Hinc omnis pullulat aetas") is not set; the bold numerals beside the right column belong to column 1150

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CAPUT VI.

Chapter VI.

Ad vocem ergo Dei mundo per cuncta tremente, / Et motis p⟨e⟩nitus virtutibus aeris alti, / Tunc fragor insolitus, tunc maxima murmura coeli, / Adveniente Deo, totius judice mundi. / Protinus innumeri concurrunt ire ministri, / Convallantque Deum cum majestate superna; / Angelica in terras descendent agmina coelo; / Omnes, turba Dei, quibus est divina facultas, / Vultibus et forma virtutis spiritus omnes. / Igneus his vigor est, rutilantia corpora, coeli / Vis divina micat, hinc totus murmurat orbis, / Hioc trepidans penitus, vel quanta est, terra remugit, / Parturiens homines, quos reddere jussa docebit. / Omnes mirantur, turbantur denique nimbi, / Astraque mota pavent, subi⟨t⟩ae virtutis ab alto. / Sic veniente Deo, sonitus cum voce potentis; / Omnia continuo ruptis per regna sepulcris, / Omnis humus latis effundit hiatibus ossa, / Viventesque patens populos eructat arena, / Haerent membra comis, nectunturque ossa medullis, / Consertique regunt spirantia corpora nervi, / Et simul infuso motantur sanguine venae, / Dimissisque cavis, animae redduntur apertis, / Organa quaeque sua repetunt snrgentia parte. / Proh, miranda fides, hinc omnis pullulat aetas; / Pullulat antiquo mortuorum pulvere turba; / Matres atque patres repetita luce resurgunt, / Magnanimi juvenes, pueri, innuptaeque puellae, / Defunctique senes animis virentibus adstant, / Infantumque gemens resonat vagitibus orbis, / Tam variae gentes venient de sedibus imis, / Eoumque manus, et quas videt ultima tellus, / Quaeque colunt medii devexo in climate mundi, / Riphaeasque tenent algentis sideris arces. / Omnis adest, pavidus finis cujusque; colonus, / Rusticus, Atrides posito diademate regni, / Pauperibus mixtus coaequalis in agmine dives. / Altus ubique tremor, precibus tunc ingemit orbis. / Tendentes que manus populi clamore stupescunt.

Therefore at the voice of God, while the world trembles throughout all things, and the powers of the high air are shaken to their depths, then comes an unwonted crash, then the mightiest rumblings of heaven, as God arrives, the judge of the whole world. At once countless ministers of wrath run together and surround God with supernal majesty; the angelic hosts will descend from heaven to the earth; all of them, the throng of God, to whom divine capacity belongs, all spirits in countenance and in the form of power. Fiery is their vigour, glowing their bodies; the divine force of heaven flashes; hence the whole globe murmurs, hence, trembling to its depths, great as it is, the earth bellows in answer, bringing to birth the men whom the command will teach it to give back. All marvel, the clouds at last are thrown into turmoil, and the stars, shaken, quake at the sudden power from on high. Thus, as God comes, with the sound and the voice of the Mighty One, straightway, the tombs being burst open throughout all realms, all the soil pours forth bones from wide chasms, and the sand, opening, belches out living peoples; limbs cling to hair, and bones are knit to marrow, and interwoven sinews govern the breathing bodies, and at the same time the veins are set in motion with blood poured into them, and, released from the opened hollows, souls are given back; each organ, rising, seeks again its own part. Oh, wondrous faith! Hence every age springs forth; a throng springs forth from the ancient dust of the dead; mothers and fathers rise again with light regained, great-hearted youths, boys and unwedded girls, and old men who had died stand by with flourishing spirits, and the world, groaning, resounds with the wailings of infants; so varied are the nations that will come from their lowest seats, the bands of the East, and those whom the farthest land beholds, and those who dwell in the sloping clime of the middle of the world, and who hold the Riphaean heights of the freezing star. Everyone is present, fearful of each one's end: the farmer, the peasant, the son of Atreus with the diadem of his kingship laid aside, the rich man mingled with the poor, made equal in the column. Everywhere there is deep trembling; then the world groans with prayers, and the peoples, stretching out their hands, are stunned by the clamour.

CAPUT VII.

Chapter VII.

Ipse sedens Dominus, sublimi lumine clarus, / Atque potens cunctis micat in virtutibus ignis, / Excelsoque throno coelesti sede coruscat; / Martyribus septus, numero candente virorum, / Delectisque suis comitatus vatibus exstat, / Clara quibus niveis effulgent corpora stolis. / Jamque sacerdotes nitidis in vestibus adstant, / Gestantes rutilas insigni fronte coronas, / Submissique omnes genibus veneranter adorant.

The Lord Himself, seated, bright with sublime light, and mighty, gleams with fire in all His powers, and flashes on a lofty throne in the heavenly seat; hedged about by martyrs, a shining number of men, He stands forth accompanied by His chosen prophets, whose bright bodies shine in snowy robes. And now priests stand by in gleaming vestments, bearing glowing crowns on a distinguished brow, and all, bowed down, adore on their knees with veneration.

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Footnotes

(77) ‹anchor: omnis pullulat aetas› · call in col 1150

[Commentarius.] (77) Hinc omnis pullulat aetas, etc. Eodem spectat quod subjicit auctor : pueri, et : Infantumque gemens resonat vagitibus orbis. Sed sane haec intelligenda sunt, quod nempe etiam pueri et infantes resurgent; non tamen in eadem aetate, sed (juxta quod Apostolus scribit Ephes. II) in mensuram aetatis plenitudinis Christi. Quia unusquique (inquit B. Aug. lib. XXII de Civ. Dei, c. 15) suam recipiet mensuram corporis, quam vel habuit in juventute, etiam si senex obiit, vel fuerat habiturus, si ante est defunctus. Aetas vero erit illa, ad quam pervenit Christus, citra 30 annos.

[Commentary.] (77) Hence every age springs up, etc. To the same point looks what the author adds: boys, and: "And the world resounds, groaning with the wailing of infants." But these things must surely be understood to mean that even boys and infants will rise again; not, however, at the same age, but (according to what the Apostle writes, Ephesians II) unto the measure of the age of the fullness of Christ. For each one (says Blessed Augustine, City of God book XXII, ch. 15) will receive his own measure of body, which he either had in youth, even if he died an old man, or would have had, if he died before it. And the age will be that which Christ reached, about 30 years.

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running head: …IX I. — DB JUDICIO DOMINI 1150
marginal letters: A CAPUT VI.; B Omnes mirantur; C Magnanimi juvenes; D Ipse sedens Dominus
old-edition numerals: 1093 after coeli; 1094 after adstant

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Hagie, hagie, sancte Deus; vox omnibus una est. Hic Dominus geminam mandabit sistere plebem; Imperat et juxta numerum discernere pravos, Appellans placidis verbis sua jussa secutos, Indutosque jubet, devicta morte, vigorem, Semper inexstinctas habitare ad luminis auras; Ire per antiquum semper florentia regna Promissas per opes, per semper amoena vireta, Degere perpetuam praeclaro in corpore vitam.

Hagie, hagie, holy God; one voice belongs to all. Here the Lord will command the twofold people to stand; He gives command also to separate the wicked according to number, calling with gentle words those who have followed His commands, and He bids them, death overcome, clothed with vigour, to dwell for ever in the unquenchable airs of light; to go through the kingdoms flourishing for ever of old, through the promised riches, through the ever-pleasant green places, and to spend a perpetual life in a glorious body.

CAPUT VIII.

Chapter VIII.

Est locus Eois Domino dilectus in oris, Lux ubi clara, nitens, spiratque salubrior aura, Aeternusque dies, atque immutabile tempus; Est secreta Deo regio, ditissima campis, Atque beata nimis, sudaeque in cardine sedis. Aer laetus ibi, semperque in luce futurus, Lenis et adspirans vitalia flamina ventus. Omnia fert foecunda, solo praedivite, tellus, Flores in pratis fragrant, et purpura campis Omnia praerutila miscet non invida luce. Flos alium laetus suo lumine vestit amictus, Roscidaque hic multo variantur semine rura, Et roscis nivea crispantur floribus arva. Nescitur quibus usque locis felicior aura, Quae melior specie, vel plus praecellat honore. Talia florigeris numquam nascuntnr in hortis Lilia, nec nostris efflorent talia campis, Nec sic nata rubent, mox ut rosa panditur aura Purpura nec Tyrio sic est intincta ru⟨b⟩ore. Gemma coloratis fulget speciosa lapillis; Inde nitet prasinus, illinc carbunculus ardet, Herbosaque viret praegrandis luce smaragdus; Hic et odoriferis nascuntur cynnama virgis, Et spisso laetum folio conflagrat amomum. Hic jacet ingenitum radiantis luminis aurum, Et nemora alta tenent florenti tempore coelum, Virentesque gravant uberrima germina ramos. Porrexit similes non illis India lucos, Non ita densa levat in monte cacumina pinus, Nec sic alticoma est umbra crispata cupressus; Nec vernus melius floret cum tempore ramus. Hic abietes celso florent in vertice nigrae. Aeternumque virent solae sine grandine sylvae. Nulla cadunt folia, et nullo flos tempore defit. Flos quoque floret ibi rubeus, cen purpura Tarsi, Flos hic, credo, rosa est, rubor atque odor acer in ipso,

There is a place beloved of the Lord on the eastern shores, where the light is clear and shining, and a more wholesome breeze breathes, and the day is eternal and time unchangeable; there is a region set apart for God, most rich in fields, and exceedingly blessed, and in the quarter of a cloudless seat. The air there is glad and will be for ever in light, and the wind is gentle and breathes life-giving gusts. The fruitful earth, its soil most rich, bears all things; flowers are fragrant in the meadows, and in the fields purple mingles all things, very red, with ungrudging light. One flower, glad, clothes another with its light as with a mantle, and here the dewy countryside is varied with abundant seed, and the fields are crisped with snow-white dewy flowers. It is not known in what places the air is happier, which is better in appearance or excels more in honour. Such lilies are never born in flower-bearing gardens, nor do such bloom in our fields, nor do new buds so redden as when the rose is opened by the breeze, nor is purple so dyed with Tyrian red. The beautiful gem shines with coloured stones; on this side the prasinus gleams, on that the carbuncle burns, and the very large emerald grows green with grassy light; here too cinnamon grows on fragrant twigs, and glad amomum blazes with thick leaf. Here lies the native gold of radiant light, and lofty groves reach the sky in their flowering season, and most fertile buds weigh down the green branches. India has not stretched out groves like these; the pine does not raise such dense tops on the mountain, nor is the shade of the leafy-crowned cypress so crisped; nor does the spring bough flower better in its season. Here the black firs flourish on a lofty summit, and the woods alone are eternally green without hail. No leaves fall, and at no time does the flower fail. A red flower also blooms there, like the purple of Tarsus; this flower, I believe, is the rose, its redness and sharp scent in itself,

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[Commentarius.] (78) Inde nitet prasinus, etc. Appellatur Plinio prasius, sive uti auctor : prasinus, e gemmarum viridantium genere, lib. XXXVII, cap. 8 : at prasinus colorem viridem significat. De carbunculo et smaragdo vide supra lib. II, adv. Marc. cap. 10, num. 64.

[Commentary.] (78) Thence the prasinus shines, etc. It is called by Pliny prasius, or as the author has it, prasinus, of the class of green gems, book XXXVII, ch. 8; but prasinus means the colour green. On the carbuncle and the emerald see above, book II, Against Marcion, ch. 10, no. 64.

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(printed under page 580) (79) Hic et odoriferis nascuntur cynnama virgis, Et spisso laetum folio conflagrat amomum, etc. Auctorem non modo in caeteris hujus capitis, sed maxime in hoc loco videtur imitatus Lactantius carmine de Phaenice, ubi dixit : Cynnama dehinc, auramque procul spirantis amomi Congerit... De cynnamo vero, sive cynnamomo, vide Plinium lib. XXII, cap. 19. De amomo ejusdem lib. cap. 13. Emendavimus vero virentesque, etc. ramos, pro : viventesque, sicuti post aliquot lineas : Et pulchre redolet munus medicabile Cretae, pro : Pulchrae redolent ; ubi alludit ad herbarum Cretensium varia genera, quorum in medicinis usus est praecipuus, utpote quod in ea insula nullum venenatum nascatur animal.

(79) Here too cinnamon springs from fragrant twigs, And the amomum, glad in its thick leaf, blazes up, etc. Lactantius seems to have imitated the author not only in the rest of this chapter but most of all in this passage, in his poem on the Phoenix, where he said: "Cinnamon then, and amomum breathing its scent afar, She gathers..." On cinnamon, or cinnamomum, see Pliny book XXII, ch. 19; on amomum, ch. 13 of the same book. We have emended virentesque, etc. ramos ("and the green branches") in place of viventesque ("and the living"), just as a few lines later: "And beautifully smells the healing gift of Crete," in place of Pulchrae redolent ("beautiful [things] smell"); where he alludes to the various kinds of Cretan herbs, whose use in medicines is foremost, inasmuch as no venomous animal is born on that island.

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Audistis sonitus, vidistis fulgura coeli, Assiduas pluvias, ventorum et grandinis iras Experti! quoties noctesque diesque sereni Tempora foecundant pulchris Dei munera donis, Vernabantque rosae, frugum nec defuit aestas, Autumnus varie fundebat mollia poma, Aspera hyems quamvis glaciales fregit olivas; Cuncta Deus tribuit, bonitas nec defuit ejus, Terra Deum tremuit, pontus de voce pependit Et fluvius siccas trepidus refugit arenas; Et genitura Deum quaevis per cuncta fatetur; Vos miseri, Dominum coeli terraeque negastis, Praeconesque Dei (horrendum) saepe fugastis, Et justos potius crudeli caede necastis, Et fraus in vobis post crimen semper inhaesit. Ergo sementis fructum capietis iniquae: Noscitis esse, Deumque tamen ridere soletis; Ibitis in tenebras ignis et sulphuris altas, Passuri ardentes justas cruciatibus iras, Aeternae Deus ossa jubet descendere poenae, Ire sub ardorem rabidae sine fine gehennae, Urgeri molem per stagna rotantia flammae, In flammamque jubet converti elementa minantem, Atque omnem coeli descendere nubibus ignem.

You have heard the thunderings, you have seen the lightnings of heaven, having experienced the constant rains, the rages of winds and of hail! How often by night and by day have serene seasons made fruitful the gifts of God with beautiful bounties, and the roses bloomed in spring, nor was the summer of crops lacking, autumn poured out soft fruits in variety, although harsh winter broke the olives with frost; God bestowed all things, nor was His goodness lacking. The earth trembled at God, the sea hung upon His voice, and the river in fear fled back from the dry sands; and every created thing throughout all things confesses God. You wretches denied the Lord of heaven and earth, and (a horrible thing) often put to flight the heralds of God, and rather slew the just with cruel slaughter, and fraud ever clung to you after crime. Therefore you will reap the fruit of a wicked sowing: you know that He exists, and yet you are accustomed to laugh at God; you will go into the deep darkness of fire and sulphur, to suffer burning just wrath in torments. God commands your bones to go down into eternal punishment, to go beneath the burning of raging Gehenna without end, to be driven as a mass through the whirling pools of flame, and He commands the elements to be turned into threatening flame, and all the fire of heaven to come down from the clouds.

CAPUT X.

Chapter X.

Tunc avidus rapido est inclusus tartarus igne, Atque procellosis flamma intus fluctuat undis, Totaque vertentes confundit terra favillas. Flammeus est sulcus, dentes vertuntur acuti, Omnibus et torrens armabitur igneus annis. Impetu tartareo frendent incendia mundo, Illic praecipiti cursu torrentur in aestu, Hinc fugiunt, illinc cursu referuntur acuto; Obvia fit saevae flammae fugientibus ira, Agnoscuntque suam jam tum de crimine poenam. Jamque vaga a nullo tellus possessa colono, Aequoris extremo pressa et sub fine profundo, Qua sol emenso radio disterminat orbem, Et qua transacto conduntur sidera mundo; Aether gliscit, atris obstrusa luce tenebris, Ultima secretis stagnant flammantia rivis. Et natura loci signatis ignea poenis, Infernisque palus candens ardoribus atrox. Intonat horrificis facinus poenale caminis, Aestuat, et rapitur lato de vortice flammae, In tormenta ruens, fluctuque et gurgite saevo, Turbida caenoso fundo miscetur arena. Huc captiva gemens mittetur turba malorum, Arsurumque nefast scelerati corporis agmen,

Then greedy Tartarus is shut in with swift fire, and the flame surges within in stormy waves, and the whole earth stirs together the whirling embers. The furrow is of flame, the sharp teeth are turned, and the fiery torrent will be armed for all the years. With Tartarean onset the conflagrations gnash upon the world; there they are scorched in the heat in headlong course, from here they flee, from there they are borne back in a sharp course; the wrath of the savage flame meets those who flee, and they recognize their own punishment now at last for their crime. And now a wandering land, possessed by no husbandman, pressed down at the farthest and deep end of the sea, where the sun with its measured ray bounds the world, and where the stars are hidden when the world has passed; the ether glows, its light shut in by black darkness, the uttermost places stagnate with flaming hidden streams. And the nature of the place is fiery with marked punishments, and the infernal marsh is glowing, dreadful with burnings. Penal wickedness thunders from horrific furnaces, it seethes, and is swept along from the broad whirlpool of flame, rushing into torments, and with wave and savage gulf the turbid sand is mixed with the muddy bottom. Hither the captive throng of the wicked will be sent groaning, and the unholy host of the criminal body that is to burn,

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[Variae lectiones.] 33 Justis fortasse melius.

[Variant readings.] 33 Perhaps better "justis" ("to the just").

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34 Annon potius impete.

34 Or rather "impete" (by the onset)?

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Magnus plangor ibi luctus sociante boatu, / Et stridor rabidus, ululatus et inde dolentum. / Exsurgent flammaeque procul, artusque sonori, / Ignis inardescet gemitusque feretur ad auras, / Tunc humana mali pendet commissa propago, / Incipietque suas ad coelum tendere palmas, / Et Dominum tunc nosse volet, quem nosse volebat / Antea non, cum nosse illis foret utile tempus; / Illic quisque suae profitebitur effera vitae, / Injustasque manus, et saevae crimina mentis, / Horrescetque suae quae moverit impia vitae. / Jam primum quicumque Deum male senserit ante, / Et vaga mentito coluisset numine saxa, / Atque cruentiferis signis sacraverit aras, / Et picturatas timuit sine voce figuras, / Ac falsi tenues veneratus numinis umbras, / Et quoscumque malus seduxit protinus error. / Si quis adulter erat, si natos ense necarat, / Si raptor grassatus erat, si fraude clientes / Distulerat, si mente parum versatus amica; / Sive suas hominum macularat sanguine palmas, / Miscueratve latebrosa si morte venenum, / Aut si vestitus scelerato pectora fuco, / Sive malo alterius, lucro et gaudebat iniquo; / Admisit quicumque nefas quodcumque malorum; / Ingens ardor eum, atque ignis torquebit amarus. / Suppliciumque dabunt peracerbo funere cuncti. / Plurima sic hominum moerentum turba jacebit.

Great lamentation is there, grief joined with bellowing, and furious gnashing, and then the howling of those in pain. And flames will rise up far off, and resounding limbs; the fire will blaze up and groaning will be borne to the breezes. Then the human race, having committed evil, hangs in suspense, and will begin to stretch out its palms to heaven, and will then wish to know the Lord whom before it did not wish to know, when the time for knowing would have been useful to them. There each will confess the savage deeds of his life, and his unjust hands, and the crimes of a cruel mind, and will shudder at the impious deeds of his life that he set in motion. Now first, whoever before thought ill of God, and worshipped wandering stones with a feigned deity, and consecrated altars with blood-bearing signs, and feared painted figures without voice, and venerated the thin shades of a false deity, and whomever wicked error straightway led astray. If anyone was an adulterer, if he had slain children with the sword, if he had prowled as a robber, if by fraud he had put off his clients, if he had conducted himself with a mind too little friendly; or if he had stained his palms with the blood of men, or had mixed poison with a hidden death, or if he had clothed his breast with wicked pretence, or rejoiced in another's ill and in unjust gain; whoever committed any wickedness among evils: a huge burning and a bitter fire will torment him. And all will pay the penalty in a most bitter death. Thus a very great crowd of mourning men will lie prostrate.

CAPUT XI.

Chapter XI.

Hoc quoties olim sancti cecinere prophetae, / Flatu et saepe Dei moniti dixere futura; / Nemo suas (miserum) nemo, eheu! praebuit aures. / Sed Deus omnipotens voluit sua praemia nosci, / Atque minas positae per plurima talia legis. / Mittendo statuit plures, et verba sonantes / Divina; excitosque jubet prodire sepulcris / Secum, cum fracto surrexerat ipse sepulcro. / Obstupuere quidem plures patuisse sepulcra, / Et cerni in clara praemortua corpora luce; / Miratique pios sermones, dulcia dicta, / Ipsa voce suas tendunt ad sidera palmas, / Gratanturque Deo, et victori talia Christo, / Illos non tumulos certum est repetisse silentes, / Amplius aut terrae retineri viscere clausos; / Reliqua sed recubat nunc turba cubilibus imis; / Ille dies donec, completo tempore, magnus / Adveniat: Cuncti Dominum jam agnoscite verum, / Qui solus facit hanc animam sua cernere luce, / Eamdemque potest in tartara subdere poenis,

As often as the holy prophets of old sang of this, and, warned often by the breath of God, told of things to come, no one (wretched to say), no one, alas, lent his ears. But God almighty willed His rewards to be known, and the threats of the law laid down, through very many such things. By sending He appointed several, [men] sounding divine words; and He bids those He had roused come forth from the tombs with Him, when He Himself had risen from the broken tomb. Many indeed were astounded that the tombs had opened, and that bodies dead before were seen in clear light; and, marvelling at the pious discourses, the sweet sayings, with their very voice they stretch out their palms to the stars, and give thanks in such words to God and to Christ the victor. It is certain that they did not return to their silent graves, nor were held any longer shut up in the bowels of the earth; but the remaining crowd now lies in its deepest beds, until that great day, the time being fulfilled, arrives: All of you, now acknowledge the true Lord, Who alone causes this soul to see by His light, and can cast the same down to Tartarus for punishments,

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[Commentarius.] (80) Cuncti Dominum jam agnoscite verum. — Castigamus vero sua cernere luce, pro suam cernere lucem. E more suo accipit auctor : quam , pro antequam, cum subjicit : .... Quam terminus aevi Obruat incautos, et nescia lumina solvat. Ultimus ille dies ; ubi in eo quod sequitur, emendamus: mortis quia lege tenetur pro qui, incipientes novam periodum ibi. Quod pretium superest, carae invigilate saluti; quamquam vox pretium corrupta sit, nisi accipiatur pro precum.

[Commentary.] (80) All of you, acknowledge now the true Lord. — We correct sua cernere luce ("to see by its own light") in place of suam cernere lucem ("to see its own light"). After his habit the author takes quam for "antequam" (before), when he adds: ".... Before the end of the age Overwhelms the unwary, and closes their unknowing eyes. That last day;" where, in what follows, we emend mortis quia lege tenetur ("because it is held by the law of death") in place of qui, beginning a new sentence there. What price remains, keep watch over your dear salvation; although the word pretium ("price") may be corrupt, unless it is taken for precum ("of prayers").

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Et cui cuncta patet vitae mortisque potestas, Posse Deum, nam velle sat est, factumque loquendo Implet, et obstando plane nibil impedit illum. Ille mens solus, cui credo sensibus imis. At quoniam leto cursus concluditur omnis, Quicumque est hodie, secum putet omnia mentc, Atque ideo dum vita manet, dum cernere lucem, Dum vitam mutare licet; quam terminus aevi Obruat incautos, et nescia lumina solvat Ultimus ille dies, mortis quia lege tenetur; Quod pretium superest, carae invigilate saluti, Et faciles certique bonum decurrite cursum. Abstergete piis commissa piacula sacris, Atque vagas nimium mundi vitate procellas;

and to Whom the whole power of life and death lies open, that God is able, for to will is enough, and by speaking He accomplishes what is done, and nothing at all hinders Him by opposing. He alone is mind, Whom I believe with my inmost senses. But since every course is brought to its close by death, let whoever exists today ponder all things with himself in his mind, and therefore while life remains, while [one may] see the light, while it is permitted to change one's life, before the end of the age overwhelms the unwary and that last day releases the unknowing eyes, since it is held by the law of death, keep watch over your dear salvation, which is the reward that remains, and, ready and sure, run the good course. Wipe away with holy rites the offences committed, and shun the all too wandering storms of the world;

Tum rectas et adite vias, et sancta tenete. Hinc laetis animis pravum depellite crimen: Et concreta diu proluatur pectore culpa, Commissasque mali labes abolete nefandas. Aeternisque Deum precibus placate tremendum. Pessima cuncta bonis cedant mortalia vivis, Et servate novam jamjam sine crimine vitam, Incipiantque bonis verisque assuescere mentes, Laudibus et faciles divinis reddite voces. Sic meliora piis flagrabunt omnia vobis, Sic quoque coelestis capietis munera vitae, Cumque Deo longum semper vivetis in aevum, Aurea siderei cernentes gaudia regni.

Then both enter upon the right paths and hold to holy things. Hence with joyful minds drive out depraved wrongdoing, and let the guilt long hardened be washed out of the breast, and abolish the unspeakable stains of evil committed. And appease with unceasing prayers God Who is to be feared. Let all the worst mortal things give way to the good who live, and keep now at once a new life without crime, and let your minds begin to grow used to good and true things, and render your voices ready for divine praises. Thus all better things will glow for you who are devout, thus also you will take the gifts of heavenly life, and with God you will live for ever, for a long age, beholding the golden joys of the starry kingdom.

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[Variae lectiones.] 35 Locavit, cod. Victorinus.

[Variant readings.] 35 Locavit ("he placed"), the Victorine manuscript.

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36 Claro. Sic Pamelius post Fabricium. Clari Morel. et cod. Victor.

36 Claro ("bright"). So Pamelius, following Fabricius. Clari, Morel and the Victorine manuscript.

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37 Errantia, Baluz. ex cod. Vict.

37 Errantia ("wandering"), Baluze from the Victorine manuscript.

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38 Corpore, Morel. cod. Victor.

38 Corpore ("with the body"), Morel, the Victorine manuscript.

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39 In, Morel. cod. Victor.

39 In, Morel, the Victorine manuscript.

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40 Artificis formatum in imagine, editor Oxoniensis, Baluz.

40 Artificis formatum in imagine ("formed in the image of the Maker"), the Oxford editor, Baluze.

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41 Non patitur conjic. Baluzius

41 Baluze conjectures "non patitur" ("does not suffer").

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