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Strength Against Temptations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 August 2024
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For as mickle as the apostle says that without faith and true belief it is impossible to please God, therefore is it that our old enemy the fiend enforceth him night and day through false incastings of errors and false engines and imaginations and other such manner of wonderful devises, for to destroy and let our belief and our faith which is the groundstone of all holy kirk and beginner of all virtues. And them that he sees he may not cast down utterly from stabilness of this belief, he ceaseth not to cast them down by other diverse manner of ways (through his quantise and his wiles and his temptations). Wherefore we shall warily and ghostly withstand his wiles on this wise.
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* Note. The passages in brackets are the translator's additions to the Latin text.
1 devices
2 hinder
3 Ps. 93, 11.
4 attribute
5 journeying, cf. ‘fare ye well’.
6 rod
7 reason
8 See St Catherine of Siena: Dialogue (Part III, ch. i, in Orchard of Syon. Thorold's text, ch. 43.)
9 Latin quotes reference not text. Ch. 4° et 5°.
10 corde ad iustitiam. Rom. 10, 10.
11 no matter
12 See again St Catherine of Siena: Dialogue (id. loc. Thorold, ch. 43).
13 Acts, 14, 22.
14 of the nature of things, i.e. philosophers, including scientists.
15 The quotation ends. But Hilton has added to the Latin. St Leo. Sermo XVIII. P. L. 54, cap 3. col. 218.
16 nigh at han
17 tormented
18 Eccles. 27, 5.
19 Job. 23, 10.
20 I. Pet. 1, 7.
21 Tobit 12, 13 (Vulgate & Breviary).
22 Job. 2, 10.
23 Job. 13, 15.
24 Matt. 26, 38.
25 Isai. 54, 7.
26 in respect of
27 Rom. 8, 18 (free).
28 see Scale I, ch. 17.
29 so long
30 Luke 22, 31
31 Luke 22, 32.
32 Idem.
33 Ps. 42, 5.
34 pay attention
35 Cant. 2, 2, or 5, 6.
36 belatedly, ?
37 dignitatem, worth.