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3534 |
| Text |
In epistulas septem catholicas (710 - 735) Bede |
| Quotation |
Similiter autem et Raab meretrix nonne ex operibus iustificata est suscipiens nuntios et alia uia
eiciens?
Ne se causarentur opera tanti patris Abrahae imitari non ualere, praesertim cum nullus eos modo
cogeret Deo filios offerre perimendos, sed hoc potius ipse per scripturas Deus fieri prohibebat, addit et
mulieris exemplum, mulieris criminosae, mulieris alienigenae, quae tamen per opera misericordiae,
per officium hospitalitatis etiam cum periculo suae uitae Dei famulis exhibitum, iustificari a peccatis
meruerit, Israhelitici populi ciuis adscribi, regalis eorum prosapiae catalogo adnumerari, ipsius
domini ac saluatoris nostri generationibus quae a patriarcharum fonte descendunt inseri, ab excidio
patriae pereuntis cuius perfidiam deseruit erui. |
| Translation |
In the same way, however, was not the harlot Rahab made righteous from works, receiving the messengers and sending them out by another way? Lest they plead that they are not strong enough to imitate the works of such a great ancestor, Abraham, especially when no one now would compel them to offer their sons to God to be killed but God himself through the scriptures prohibited this to be done, he adds the example of a woman, an iniquitous woman, a foreign woman. Yet she, by works of mercy, by showing hospitality to the servants of God even at risk to her life, deserved to be made righteous from sins, to be enrolled as a member of the people of Israel, to be counted on the list of their royal lineage, to mingle with the families of our Lord and saviour himself which have descended from the patriarchs, to be plucked from the devastation of the vanishing fatherland, whose perfidy she rejected. (Trans. Hurst, pp. 33-4) |
| Quotation source |
Lib. 1, Cap. 2 (lin. 284) |
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