38. Sōþlīce sē æcyr is þēs middangeard; þæt gōde sǣd, þæt synt þæs heofonlīcan rices bearn; sē coccel synt sōþlīce þā mānfullan bearn.[1]
39. Sē unholda man sē þe þone coccel sēow, þæt is dēoful; sōðlīce þæt rip is worulde endung; þā rīperas synt englas.[2]
40. Eornustlīce swā swā sē coccel byþ gegaderud and mid fȳre forbærned, swā byð on worulde endunge.[3]
41. Mannes Sunu sent his englas, and hī gadriað of his rīce ealle gedrēfednesse, and þā þe unrihtwīsnesse wyrceað,[4]
42. and āsendað hig on fȳres ofen; þǣr byþ wōp and tōþa grīstbitung.[5]
43. Þonne scīnað ðā rihtwīsan swā swā sunne on hyra Fæder rice. [Gehȳre, sē ðe ēaran to gehȳranne hæfð.][6]
44. Heofona rīce is gelīc gehȳddum goldhorde on þām æcere; þone behȳt sē man þe hyne fint; and for his blysse gǣð and sylþ eall þæt hē āh, and gebigþ þone æcer.[7]
- ↑ A, B, æcer; A, synd (twice); A, heofenlican.
- ↑ B, sew; A, ryp ys þysre worulde; A, synd.
- ↑ A, Eornostlice; A, gegaderod; A, geendunge.
- ↑ A, hig gaderiað; A, gedrefednysse; A, unryhtwysnysse.
- ↑ A, þar.
- ↑ A, heora; A, Corp., om. Gehyre . . . hæfð, A, Gehyre se ðe earan to gehyranne hæfð, B, Gehyre . . . hæfð (by the same hand that has inserted the rubrics from A).
- ↑ A, Heofena, B, Hefona.
