By Monika Otter
Goscelin's Liber Confortatorius is outstanding either as an instance of high-medieval religious perform and as a checklist of a private courting. Written in approximately 1083 by way of the monk Goscelin to a protegee and private good friend, the recluse Eva, it takes up the culture of St Jerome's letters of non secular counsel to ladies, and anticipates medieval suggestion literature for anchoresses. As a compendious treatise, it has a lot to inform us in regards to the highbrow pursuits and preoccupations of spiritual humans within the overdue 11th century. As a private record, it permits a desirable and uncommonly intimate perception into the psychology of spiritual existence and the relationships among women and men within the excessive heart a while. This English translation is gifted the following with notes and creation.
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80 The more you were wounded with love for your loved ones in Christ here on earth, the more joyfully will you gather them about you in the eternal mansion. And, finally, there is one who once was special to you, the only one against whom you seem to have had no trouble hardening your heart, whom you had removed so far from your heart and consigned to oblivion, as if he had died. Shall I try to cure your narrowed heart? Shall I bring consolation for rigor and soften the rock with oil? Or shall I add lead and weight and help fortify your hardness?
Jonathan, however, stood firm for David against his father’s unleashed fury. His father feared and hated David, for threatening to supplant his son as heir to the kingdom; the son himself demonstrated that rather than rule, he would serve the one who was dearer to him than any kingdom, caring little which of the two of them would be king. And even they were not allowed to live together, who were one another’s life and soul. And neither was Jonathan angry, nor did David despair, that they were not able to come together in the flesh.
24 For nobody had ever borne such sorrow; never had so great a woman seen so great a man die. Jesus, in his mercy, took pity on the weeping woman and would have caught her as she fainted; but he remained, with both palms nailed to the cross, thus preserving the marks of his wounds to be kissed in his resurrection, for he did not want to void our redemption by descending. And even though Gabriel, well known to her, and all the angelic hosts were watching over her as their sovereign lady and the mother of their Lord, he nonetheless commended his mother to his favorite disciple, most special to him because of his virginity, as to another son.