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210 GREGORY'S PASTORAL. [Cotton MSS. nan yfel ne do. Đa fortruwodnesse & ða anwilnesse an Corintheum Paulus ongeat swiðe wiðerweardne wið hiene, & betweoh him selfum swiðe aðundene & upahafene; swæ ðætte sume cwædon ðæt hie wæron Apollan, sume cwædon ðæt hie wæron Paules, sume Petres, sum cwæð ðæt he wære Cristes. Ac Paulus ða sona ða unclænan scylde beforan him eallum sæde, þe an hiera ealra gewitnesse gedon wæs, & ða giet ungebett; he cwæð: We gehierdon betweohxn eow unryhthæmed, ge swæ unryht swæ we furðum betweohxn hæðnum monnum ne hierdun, ðæt is ðæt ge sume hæfdon eowre steopmodor, & ge ðæs næfdon nane sorge, & noldon from eow adón ða þe ðæt dydon, ac wæron swæ upahafene swæ ge ær wæron. Swelce he openlice cwæde: Hwæt wille ge for eowerre fortruwodnesse & for eowerre anwilnesse cweðan, hwæs oððe hwæs ge sien? Forðæmpe on eowre towesnesse ge habbað gecyðed ðæt ge ures nanes ne sindon. Ас ðа lytelmodan & ða unðristan we magon ðy ieð on ðæm wege gebringan godra weorca, gif we healfunga & ðeah be sumum dæle hiera godan weorc sæcgeað, forðæm, ðonne we hiera yfel tælað, ðæt we eac hiera god herigen, forðæm ðæt we hiera modes meruwenesse gestiðigen mid ðæm ðæt hie gehieren ðæt we hie herigen, & ðætte eft sien hiera scylda geðreade mid ðæm ðæt we hie tælen. Oft we magon bion swæ nyttran æt him, gif we hie myndgiað hiera godna weorca, & ða secgeað, & gif we hwæt ongietað on him ungesceadwislices gedon, ne sculon we no hie swæ ðreagean swelce hie hit gedon hæbben, ðeah hit gedon sie, ac we sculon him forbeodan ðæt hie huru swæ ne don, swelce hit ðonne giet gedon ne sie, forðæm ðæt sio hering ðe we ær

any evil. The presumption and obstinacy of the Corinthians Paul saw to be greatly opposed to himself, and he saw that they were very inflated and puffed up among themselves; so that some said they were Apollos's, some Saul's, some Peter's, and one said that he was Christ's. But Paul soon spoke out before them all the unclean sin, which had been done with the knowledge of all of them, and was still unatoned ; he said: “We have heard of fornication among you, and worse than any we have heard of even among heathens, that is, that some of you had your step-mothers, and ye were not troubled at it, and would not put away from you those who did so, but were as elated as ye were before." As if he had openly said : “What will ye say for your presumption