The homily that's determined to kill me - HomM 14.1-2, Junius 85, ff 2v, 12r-17r

[k_navit]

ETA: Why does lj keep changing my formatting on me every time I edit this post? I am really getting sick of this.  My line breaks and justification keep disappearing.  So you may not want to bother with the below if the formatting is gone again - it's far too hard to read.

I cannot even begin to express how long it's taken me to get this far -

Comments

[fambrena]

Could the genitive be something like "of[concerning] the sinful man's soul" or "from the sinful man's soul"?

[k_navit]

Would a phrase "from/concerning the sinful man's soul" take the genitive rather than dative in a sense like that? (I honestly don't know. What I think I recall is probably all mixed up from Latin

[fambrena]

I may be mixing it up with Latin too, but in Latin I think that phrase would probably be ablative. I seem to recall OE using the genitive in similar weird ways. So then it might be, "Beloved men, we learn in holy writings that the soul of each man, after this world, must seek again the body and in these words thus speak and say, from the soul of each sinful man, 'do you hear, wretched sinful body