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Rh ne gesēoð. Ac ūs ys gehāten būtan ǣlcum twēon swā-swā wē of þisse weorulde weorðað, and sēo sāwle of þǣre carcerne þæs līchaman ālētan byð, þæt wē witon ǣlces þinges þe wē nū wilniað tō witanne, and micle māre þonne þā ealdan men, þā ealra wissestan on þisse weorulde, witan magen. And efter dōmes dæge ūs ys gehāten þæt wē mōten God gesēon openlice, ealne gesēon, swylce swylce hē ys , and hyne ā syððan cunnan swā georne swā hē nū ūs can. Ne byð ūs nǣfre syððan nānes wīsdōmes wana. Nele hē ūs nānwiht helan, sē þe ūs lǣt hyne selfne cunnan. Ac wē witon ðonne eall þæt wē nū wilniað tō witanne, ge ǣac þæt þæt wē nū nā ne wilniað tō witanne. Ealle wē gesēoð God, ge þā þe hēr wyrste beoð ge þā þe hēr beste bēoð. Ealle þā gōdan hyne gesēoð, heom tō frōfran and tō gefēan and tō āre and [tō] ēaðnesse and tō wuldre; and þā yfelan hyne gesēoð swā ylce swā þā gōdan, heom þēah tō wīte, forðām hȳ gesēoð.... meahte oððe mōsten on þās wurlde, oððe hweðer hȳ ēnige geminde hefde þāra frēonda þe hī beftan. heom lefdon on þisse weorulde.

Đā answarede hē ān his āgnum ingeþancum and cwæð: Hwī wēnst þū þæt þā goodan forðgefarenan habbað fulne frēodōm and eall witon þæt hȳ witan lyst, ge on þissum andweardan lȳfe, ge on ðām tōweardan? Hwī wēnst þū þæt hȳ nabban nānege munde heora frēonda on þisse weorulde, ðe se yfela welega on helle tintregum ondrǣd hys frēondum þā ylcan wītu þe hē gearnod hæfde. Þæt wes sē, ðe Crist sēde on hys godspelle þæt hē bēde Abraham þæt hē sende Lazarus, ðone þearfan, tō hym, þæt hē myd hys lȳtlan fingre hym gedripte weteris on þā tungan, and hys þurst myd þī gecēlde. Đā cwæð Abraham : 'Nese, mīn [sunu] ; ac geþenc þæt þū hym forwyrndest ǣlcra getēsa ðā git bēcgen on līchaman wēron, and þū hefdest 22 is.—