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84 se sacerd sceolde scinan beforan Gode, monnum to bisene. Ærest ealra glengea & fyrmest [ymest] sceolde scinan gold on his hrægle. Đæt is ðætte on his mode scine ealra ðinga fyrmest ondgit wisdomes. Toeacan ðæm golde ealra glengea fyrmest on his hrægle wæs beboden ðæt sceolde bion se gím iacinetus, se is lyfte onlicost on hiewe. Se ðonne tacnað ðætte eal ðætte ðæs sacerdes ondgit ðurhfaran mæge, sie ymb ða hefоnlican lufan, næs ymbe idelne gylp, ðylæs him losige ðæt hefenlice ondgit, forðæmþe he sie gehæfted mid ðæm luste his selfes heringe. Eac ðæm golde & ðæm line wæs ongemong purpura, ðæt is kynelic hrægl, forðæm hit tacnað kynelicne onwald. Be ðæm geðence se sacerd, ðonne he oðre men healice lærð, ðæt he eac on him selfum healice ofðrysce [ðrysce] ða lustas his unðeawa, forðæmþe he kynelic hrægl hæfð, ðæt he eac sie kyning ofer his agene unðeawas, & ða kynelice oferswiðe; & geðence he simle sie swæ æðele swæ unæðele swæðer he sie ða æðelu ðære æfterran acennesse, ðæt is on ðæm fulluhte, & simle otiewe [ætiewe] on his ðeawum ða ðing þe he ðær to Gode hett [ðær Gode gehet], & ða ðeawas be him mon ðær bebead. Be ðæm æðelum ðæs gastes Petrus cwæð: Ge sint acoren kynn Gode & kynelices preosthades. Be ðæm onwalde, þe we sculun ure unðeawas mid ofercuman, we magon getrymede mid Iohannes cwide ðæs godspelleres, ðe he cwæð: Đa þe hiene onfengon, he salde him onwald ðæt hie meahton beon Goles bearn. Đa medomnesse ðære strengeo se salmscop ongeat, þa he cwæð: Dryhten, suiðe suiðe sint geweorðode mid me ðine friend, & swiðe is gestrangod hiera ealdordom ; forðæmþe ðæt mod ðinra haligra bið aðened swiðe healice & swiðe stranglice to ðe, ðonne

is, that above all the knowledge of wisdom was to shine in his mind. After the gold, above all the gem jacinth was to be on his robe, which is most like the sky in colour, signifying that whatever the mind of the priest penetrates, it must be for the sake of divine love and not of idle vaunt, lest heavenly understanding fail him when he is ensnared by the desire of his own praise. Besides the gold and linen there was purple, which is a royal vestment, since it is the sign of royal authority. By which let the priest remember, when he loftily teaches other men, loftily to destroy his vicious desires, since he has a royal robe, that he may also be king over his own faults and royally vanquish them; and whether he be noble or of