On the Lord's Prayer 15
Summary: God's will is the life Christ lived and taught: humility, faith, justice, mercy, peace, love, and steadfastness to death.
Latin text · CSEL 3.1:277–278
Voluntas autem Dei est quam Christus et fecit et docuit. humilitas in conuersatione, stabilitas in fide, uerecundia in uerbis, in factis iustitia, in operibus misericordia, in moribus disciplina, iniuriam facere non nosse et factam posse tolerare, cum fratribus pacem tenere, Dominum toto corde diligere, amare in illo quod pater est, timere quod Deus est, Christo nihil omnino praeponere, quia nec nobis quicquam ille praeposuit, caritati eius inseparabiliter adhaerere, cruci eius fortiter ac fidenter adsistere, quando de eius nomine et honore certamen est, exhibere in sermone constantiam qua confitemur, in quaestione fiduciam qua congredimur, in morte patientiam qua coronamur: hoc est coheredem Christi uelle esse, hoc est praeceptum Dei facere, hoc est uoluntatem patris inplere.
English · Claude translation
Now the will of God is what Christ both did and taught: humility in conduct, steadfastness in faith, modesty in words, justice in deeds, mercy in works, discipline in morals; not to know how to do an injury and to be able to bear one done; to keep peace with the brothers; to love the Lord with all the heart; to love in him that he is Father, to fear that he is God; to put nothing at all before Christ, because he put nothing before us; to cling inseparably to his love; to stand bravely and faithfully by his cross; when there is a contest over his name and honour, to show in speech the constancy with which we confess, under questioning the confidence with which we engage, in death the patience by which we are crowned. This is to wish to be a co-heir of Christ; this is to do God's command; this is to fulfil the Father's will.
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- Digital text corrected (OCR: "Y" for "V".; OCR: stray period.): Yoluntas → Voluntas; nihil omnino. praeponere → nihil omnino praeponere.
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Cyprian, Dom. or. 15 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/cyprian-dominica-oratione/15/).
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Cyprian, Dom. or. 15 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/cyprian-dominica-oratione/15/).
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