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328 þe gesæd is on ðæm golspelle, ðæt Dryhten cweðan wille, ðonne he cymð to ðæm dome, he cwið: Me hyngrede, & ge me nauht ne saldon etan. Me ðyrste, & ge me ne saldon drincan. Ic wæs cuma, & ge me noldon onfon. Ic was nacod, & ge me noldon bewrion. Ic wæs untrum & on carcærne, & ge min noldon fandian. Ðæm monnum is gehaten ðæt he wille cweðan to him: Gewitað from me, awiergede, on ece fyr, ðæt wæs gegearwod diofle & his englum. Ne scirð he no hwæðer hie reafoden, pððe hwelc oðer yfel fremeden, & swæðeah cwið ðæt hie scylen bion gehæfte on ecium fyre. Be ðæm we magon geðencan hu micles wites ða biod wierðe þe oðre menn reafiað, nu ða swæ micel wite habbað þe hiora agen ungesceadwislice healdað. Nu ða swæ micel wite habbað ðe hiora agen nyllað sellan, geðenceað ðonne hwelces wites ge wenen ðæm þe oðre men reafiað. Hwæt wene ge ðæt [hwæt] sio ðurhtogene unryhtwisnes geearnige, nu sio unðurhtogene arfæstnes swæ micel wite geearnað? Gehieren ða reaferas, ða þe higiað wið ðæs ðæt hie willað oðre men bereafian, hwæt be him gecweden is, hit is gecweden: Wa ðæm þe ealneg gadrað on hiene selfne ðæt hefige fenn, & gemanigfaldað ðætte his ne bið. Đæt is ðonne ðæt mon gadrige ðæt ðicce fenn on hiene, & hiene mid ðy gehefegige, ðæt se gidsere him on geheapige ða byrðenne eorðlicra æhta mid unryhte, & his weorðig & his land mid unryhte ryme. Ac hie scoldon gehieran ðone cwide þe be him gecweden is in Essaies bocum, hit is gecweden: Wa eow be gadriað hus to huse, & spannað ðone æcer to ðam oðrum oð ðæs londes mearce, swelce ge ane willen gebugean ealle ðas eorðan. Swelce he openlice cwæde: Hu feorr

nished to listen attentively to the speech which it is said in the Gospel the Lord will say when he comes to judgment; he will say: "I hun- gered, and ye gave me not anything to eat. I thirsted, and ye gave me not to drink. I was a stranger, and ye would not receive me. I was naked, and ye would not clothe me. I was sick and in prison, and ye would not visit me." It is promised to these men that he will Bay : Depart from me, ye accursed, into eternal fire, which is pre- pared for the devil and his angels." He does not say whether they robbed, or did any other evil, and yet says that they are to be held in eternal fire. From which we can understand of how great punish- ment those are worthy who rob others, since those are punished 80 severely who unwisely retain their own. Since those are punished