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94 ac wietað ðæt ðæt cow gemetlic sie & eower ondefnu sien to wietonne. Be ðæm wæs gecweden mid ðære godcundan stefne ðæt on ðæs sacerdes hrægle sceoldon hangian bellan & ongemong ðæm bellum reade apla. Hwæt elles is getacnod ðurh þa readan apla buton sio anmodnes ryhtes geleafan? Swæ se æppel bið betogen mid anfealdre rinde, & ðeah monig corn oninnan him hæfð, swæ sio halige cirice unrim folces befehð mid anfealde geleafan, & þa habbað swæðeah swiðe mislica geearnunga þe ðærinne wuniað. Forðon ðence [geðænce] se lareow ðæt he unwærlice forð ne ræse on þa spræce. Embe ðæt þe we ær spræcon sio Soðfæstnes ðurh hie selfe clipede to ðæm apostolum, & cwæð: Habbað ge sealt on eow & sibbe betweoh eow. Sio anlicnes wæs gecweden ðæt sceolde beon on ðæs sacerdes hrægle ða readan apla ongemang ðæm bellum. Đæt is ðætte ðurh eal ðæt ðæt we ær spræcon sie underfangen & wærlice gehealden sio anmodnes ðæs godcundan geleafan. Se lareow sceal mid geornfullice ingehygde foreðencean na ðæt an ðæt he ðurh hiene nan woh ne bodige, ac eac ðæt he nane ðinga ðæt ryht to swiðe & to ungemetlice & to unaberendlice ne bodige; forðæm oft ðæt mægen ðære lare wirð forloren, ðonne mon mid ungedeflicre [ungedafenlicre] & unwærlicre oferspræce ða heortan & ðæt andgit gedweled ðara þe tærto hlystað, ond eac se lareow bið gescended mid ðære oferspræce, ðonne he ne con geðencean hu he nytwierðlecust læran mæge ða þe tærto hlystan willað. Be ðæm wæs swiðe wel gecweden ðurh Moyses ðætte se wer se ðrownde oferflownesse his sædes, & ðæt unnytlice agute, ðæt he ðonne wære unclæne. Swæ eac ða word ðære

you, but know what is fitting for you to know and what ye are capable of knowing." Of which was said by the divine voice that bells were to hang on the priest's robe, and among the bells red apples. What signify the red apples but the constancy of righteous belief? As the apple is covered with a single skin, and yet has many pips inside it, so the holy Church encloses a multitude of people with one faith, and yet they who dwell therein have very different merits. Therefore let the teacher consider lest he incautiously hurry on with his speech. About that which we have treated above Truth itself spoke to the apostles: "Have salt in you and peace among you." It was said as an illustration that there were to be the red apples on the priest's robe among the bells. That is, that through all that we have said