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One could bring the translation even closer to the sense of the original by rendering _haec vasa_ as the plural as it is: "these vessels" (whose plural number is paralleled in the biblical comparison by that of the _sex ydrias lapideas_).
Best,
John Dillon
On Friday, October 24, 2008, at 3:09 am, John Briggs wrote:
> George R. Hoelzeman wrote:
> > On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:12:35 +0100, John Briggs wrote:
> >> Benedic, Domine, hunc potum, et haec vasa sicut benedixisti sex
> >> ydrias lapideas capientes metretas binas vel ternas, et vinum factum
> >> de aqua in Chana Galileae, sic benedicere digneris cervisam istam,
> >> ut sint sani et inmaculati omnes qui ex eo bibituri sunt, per
> >> invocationem nominis tui, Domine, qui regnas in saecula.
> >
> >> Egbert's Pontifical, ed. Greenwell, p.126-7.
> >
> >> [I owe this reference to C.E. Hohler, "Some Service books of the
> >> Later Saxon Church" in D. Parsons (ed.) Tenth-Century Studies:
> >> Essays in Commemoration of the Millennium of the Council of
> >> Winchester and 'Regularis Concordia' (Chichester, 1975), somewhat
> >> facetious discussion on pp.71-72 and 222-223.]
> >
> > My Latin being less than perfect, I'm dying to know the correct
> > translation of this benediction.
> >
> > George the Less (those Medievals! What will they think of next!)
>
> This should be pretty close:
>
> Bless, O Lord, this drink, and this vessel, as you blessed the six waterpots
> of stone, containing two or three measures apiece, and made wine from
> water
> in Cana of Galilee, thus by blessing you will vouchsafe this beer,
> that they
> may all be healthy and immaculate who drink of it, by the invocation
> of your
> name, O Lord, who reigneth for ever and ever.
>
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