117 wejrzenie w głąb serca [f.3r] PART I Sunday Meditations for the Entire Year FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT Before Holy Communion 1. “there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars” (Lk 21:25) [DRB].7 Consider that nothing can be governed and upheld without justice, either by men or by God. Hence, to show clearly that no transgression is ever committed and pardoned without justice, ancient pagans imagined that Aeacus, Rhadamanthus, and Minos8 acted as judges in the lower world and passed sentences on the souls of men.9 7 In an effort to preserve the meaning of the Latin Scripture quotations used by Stanislaus while making the translation easily readable, the English Scripture quotations used in this work will be taken from three different translations: The Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition, the Douay-Rheims Bible, and the New American Bible. Quotations from the Douay-Rheims and New American will be marked by the abbreviations [DRB] and [NAB] respectively, while quotations from the Revised Standard Version will not have any abbreviation following, since this will be the main translation used throughout this work. 8 According to Greek mythology, these are the sons of Zeus, who in the underworld fulfill the role of just judges. Cf. Florian Bobrowski, Słownik łacińskopolski, vol. I, Wydanie Adama Zawadzkiego, Vilnius 1841, (s.v. Aeacus); [hereafter Słownik łacińsko-polski will be abbreviated as SLP]; cf. SLP, vol. II, Wydanie Adama Zawadzkiego, Vilnius 1844, p. 131 (s.v. Rhadamanthus, and Minos). Cf. Ambrosius Calepinus, Septem Linguarum Calepinus: Hoc Est Lexicon Latinum, Vol. 1, Typis Seminarii apud Joannem Manfrè, Patavii 1758, p. 24 (s.v. Aeacus). [Hereafter Septem Linguarum Calepinus: Hoc Est Lexicon Latinum will be abbreviated as SLL.] Cf. Stanislaus Papczyński, Inspectio Cordis, Institutum Historicum Marianorum, Varsaviæ 2000, p. 17 (footnotes 1-4). [Hereafter abbreviated as IC crit. ed.] 9 Cf. Jan Parandowski, Mitologia: wierzenia i podania Greków i Rymian, Spółdzielnia Wydawnicza “Czytelnik,” Warszawa 1990, p. 155.
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