Thursday, July 9, 2009

This week's Gospel: 15th Sunday of Ordinary Time

The actual Latin source is from Sievers’ conflation of the Codex Fuldensis and Codex SanGall#56 with cross references to other partial copies of the Tatianic Gospel, but using Codex Sangallensis 56 as the main source.
Sievers’ work was to reconstruct from multiple witnesses, the best approximation to the Gospel as it left the hands of St Victor.
The Codex Fuldensis is inaccurately refered to as the Victor Codex, which it clearly is not. It is a copy of the Victor Codex, which is now, it seems, lost.
Henceforth, I will refer to the complete work as the Victor Codex, but thereby, I am implicitly referring to the original work from the hand of St. Victor.

15th Sunday of Ordinary Time, year B, as in the Codex Fuldensis Gospel
Witnessed in Cod. Sang. 56.
Using data publicly available from:
http://www.liturgyoffice.org.uk/Calendar/2009/Jul09.shtml
and The Sunday Missal to cross-check.
This Week's Gospel: Mark 6: 7 - 13
(12th-July-2009) 15th Sunday of Ordinary Time, year B.

He began to send them out.
This week’s reading is embodied in the following capitulum, but is greatly magnified with augmentations from Matthew, and Luke, to the few fragments from Mark.

XLIIII. Ubi Ihesus mittit ·XII· discipulos suos docere et curare omnes infirmitates.
(Where Jesus sends his twelve disciples to teach and to cure all infirmities.)

44: 1 - 29
And seeing the multitudes, he had compassion on them:
because they were distressed,
and lying like sheep that have no shepherd.
2
And having called his twelve disciples together,
he gave them power over unclean spirits,
to cast them out,
and to heal both all manner of diseases,
and all manner of infirmities.
3
And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God,
and he said to them:
Take nothing for your journey,
go ye not out through the street of the Gentiles,
and into the city of the Samaritans enter ye not.
But go ye rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
4
And going, preach, saying:
The kingdom of heaven is at hand.
5
Heal the sick, raise the dead,
cleanse the lepers, cast out devils:
freely have you received, freely give.
6
Do not possess gold, nor silver, nor money in your purses,
nor scrip for your journey,
nor bread, nor two coats, nor shoes, nor a staff;
for the workman is worthy of his meat.
7
Into whatsoever city or town you shall enter,
inquire who in it is worthy,
and there abide until you go thence,
eating and drinking such things as are set before you.
And heal the sick that are therein
and remove not from house to house.
8
And when you come within the house, salute it, saying:
Peace be to this house!
And if the house be worthy, your peace shall come upon it;
but if it be not worthy, your peace shall return to you.
9
And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words:
going forth out of that house or city,
shake off the dust from your feet for a testimony to them.
10
Indeed I say to you,
it shall be more tolerable
for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgement,
than for that city.
11
Behold I send you as sheep in the midst of wolves.
Be ye therefore wise as serpents and simple as doves.
12
But beware of men.
For they will deliver you up in councils,
and they will scourge you in their synagogues.
And you shall be brought before governors,
and before kings
for my sake,
for a testimony to them and to the Gentiles:
13
But when they shall deliver you up into the synagogues
and to magistrates and powers,
be not solicitous how or what you shall answer,
or what you shall say;
for it shall be given you in that hour what to speak:
For it is not you that speak,
but the spirit of your Father that speaketh in you.
14
The brother also shall deliver up the brother to death,
and the father the son;
and the children shall rise up against their parents,
and shall put them to death.
And you shall be hated by all men for my name’s sake:
but he that shall persevere,
in the end, he shall be saved.
15
And when they shall persecute you in this city, flee into another.
For: Indeed I say to you,
you shall not finish all the cities of Israel,
until the Son of man come.
16
The disciple is not above the master,
nor the servant above his lord.
It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master,
and the servant as his lord.
If they have called the householder Beelzebub,
how much more them of his household?
17
Therefore fear them not.
For nothing is covered that shall not be revealed:
nor hid, that shall not be known.
18
That which I tell you in the dark,
speak ye in the light:
and that which I whisper in your ear,
preach ye upon the housetops.
19
And I say to you, my friends:
fear ye not them that kill the body,
and are not able to kill the soul:
but rather fear him that can destroy both soul and body in hell.
20
Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing?
and not one of them shall fall on the ground without your Father.
But also the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
Fear not therefore:
better are you than many sparrows.
21
Every one therefore that shall confess me before men,
I will also confess him before my Father who is in heaven.
and before his angels.
But he that shall deny me before men
and shall be ashamed of me in this adulterous and sinful generation:
I will also deny him before my Father who is in heaven
and his angels,
and the Son of man also will be ashamed of him,
when he shall come in the glory of his Father
with the holy angels.
22
Do not think that I came to send peace upon earth:
I came not to send peace, but the sword.
For there shall be from henceforth five in one house divided:
three against two, and two against three will be divided.
For I came to separate a man against his father,
and the daughter against her mother,
and the daughter in law against her mother in law,
and a man’s enemies shall be they of his own household.
23
He that loveth father and mother more than me,
is not worthy of me;
and he that loveth son or daughter more than me,
is not worthy of me.
24
And he that taketh not up his cross, and followeth me,
is not worthy of me, neither can he be my disciple.
He that findeth his life, shall lose it:
and he that shall lose his life for me, shall find it.
25
And he that receiveth you,
receiveth me:
and he that receiveth me,
receiveth him that sent me.
26
He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet,
shall receive the reward of a prophet:
27
And whosoever shall give to drink,
to one of these little ones,
a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple,
because you belong to Christ:
indeed I say to you,
he shall not lose his reward.
28
And it came to pass,
when Jesus had made an end of commanding his twelve disciples,
he passed from thence,
to teach and to preach in their cities.
29
And going forth
the disciples preached men should do penance:
and they cast out many devils,
and anointed with oil many that were sick,
and healed them.

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As a postscript:
Ernestus Ranke’s transliteration of the Codex Fuldensis, with comments in Latin can be read here, and downloaded free of charge as a pdf:
Google Books
and my work in OCRing, and printing to pdf in the original format can be found here:
My OCR file
My intent is to translate the whole work into English, and help would be appreciated in translating the non-scriptural parts of the text, and the prefaces, for which I have no translation key. Particularly Ranke’s technical introduction, and what looks like a poem towards the end.
There is also a great wadge of tables after this poem which is in small print, and difficult to read, including some Greek text. I may, with some regret, omit this, unless someone better than me can provide considerable assistance.
Progress report:
179 pages out of 620 completed so far……

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