At 12:08 24/02/98 +0000, you wrote:
>Dear colleagues,
>
>Can anyone recognise the sources these two "texts" in sermons
>in Gloucester Cathedral MS 22?
>
>memorare nouissima [sic] & in eternum non peccabis.
>
>No doubt this is a reference to "nouissimi" in the parable of the
>vineyard (Matt. xx 1-26) the Gospel of the day.
>
No, 'nouissima' would be the 'last things' - death and judgment, heaven
and hell. Keep your mind on these, and you will not commit an eternal
sin. This is a reference to Mark 3:29, 'qui autem blasphemaverit in
Spiritum sanctum, non habebit remissionem in aeternum, sed reus erit aeterni
dilecti.'
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