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Hatton MS.] swutol ðæt ða twigu forseariað ðære unryhtan lare. Eac hie sint to manigenne ðætte hie ðurh hiera gedwolan & ðurh hiera ungeðwærnesse ða Godes ǽ, ðe us forbiet diofulum to offrianne, ðæt hie ða ilcan ǽ ne gehwierfen to diofulgielde. Be ðæm Dryhten siofigende cwæð ðurh Ossei ðone witgan, he cwæð: Ic him sealde hwæte & wín & [o]ele & gold & siolfor; ic him sealde genog, & ðæt hie worhton to diofulgieldum Bale hiera gode. Ac ðonne we underfóð ðone hwæte æt Gode, ðonne we ongietað inweardlice ða ǽ, & onwreoð ða dieglan cwidas, swelce we nimen ðone clænan hwæte, & weorpen ðæt ceaf onweg. & ðonne us selð God his wín, ðonne he us oferdrencð mid ðære lare dioplices andgites. & ðonne he us selð his ele, ðonne he us [his bebodu] openlicor gecyð, & mid ðæm [ure lif] liðelice & getæslice fereð. & ðonne he us seleð micel siolfor, ðonne he us selð micle getyngnesse & wlitige spræce ymb soðfæsðnesse to cyðanne. Ðonne he us gewelegað [mid golde], ðonne he ure heortan onlieht & gebierht mid ðæm sciman healices angietes. Ðis is eall ryhtwisra monna offrung Gode, ac hit briengað eal ða gedwolmen Bale, midðæmðe hie [hiora] hieremonna mód gedwellað, & eall hiera andgit forhwirfað mid hiera wore lare. Ðonne hie doð ðone hwæte & ðæt wín & ðone ele & ðæt siolfor to diofulgieldum, ðonne hie ða gesibsumnesse & gesceadwisnesse to gedwolan & to ungeðwærnesse gehwyrfað. Forðæm hie hwirfede mode ðære sibbe bebod gehwierfað to ungeðwærnesse, ðæt hie ðonne hie selfe ofsleað from life wordum mid ryhtum Godes dome. Ongean ðæt sint to manigenne ða ðe ða word ðære halgan ǽ ryh(t)lice eloquence and fair speech to preach the truth. He enriches us with gold, when he illuminates and brightens our hearts with the splendour of lofty understanding. All this is the offering of righteous men to God, but heretics bring it all to Baal, because they seduce the minds of their subjects, and pervert their whole understanding with their perverse doctrine. They make the wheat and wine, oil and silver, into idolatry, when they pervert peace and wisdom to error and discord. Therefore they are to be warned to consider carefully, that when they with perverted mind turn the commandments of peace into discord, they kill themselves with the words of life by the righteous judgment of God. On the other hand, those who are able to understand the words of the holy law properly, and yet will not humbly teach them,