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ǣlc good, hē hefde ǣlc yfel; ne mōt hē þē nū þȳ māre dōn tō getǣsan þe ðū þā hym woldest.' Đā cwæð se welega: ‘Abraham[1], nū gyf þæt[1] bēon ne mæg, onsend hyne tō mīnum v brōðrum þā sint gīet on eorðan, þǣr ic wes, þæt hē him āsecge on hwilcum gewīte ic eom, and hē gelǣre þæt hȳ hī wið þæt warnien[2] þæt hȳ hǣr ne cumen.' Đā cwæð Abraham[3]: 'Nese, næse; hī habbað hāligra fedra bēc myd heom[4] on eorðan. Leorniæn þā on, and gelȳfan þām; gyf hȳ him [ne] gelȳfað, ðonne nē gelȳfað hī nā Lazere, þēah hē cume tō hiom.'

Nū [wē] magon gehȳran, þæt ǣgðer ge ðā goodan forðgefaranan ge þā yfelan witon eall þæt is on þisse weorulde gewyrð, and ēac on þā weorulde þe [hī] on bēoð. Hī witon þane mǣstan dǣl, þēah hȳ hyt eall niton ǣr dōmes dæge, and hī habbað swīðe micle gemynde on þās[5] weorulde heora māga and heora frēonda[6]. And þā gooda helpað ðām goodum, and heora ǣlc ōðrum be ðām dǣle þe hȳ magon. Ac þā goodan nellað heora yflum frēondum[7] ārian, forðām hȳ nellað heora yfeles geswīcan, ðē mā þe Abraham[8] wolde þām welegan ārian þe hē hys ǣgnes kinnes wēre[9], forðām [hē] ongæt þat hē Gode[10] næs swā ēaðmōd[10] swā-swā hē myd rihte sceol. Đā yfelan þanne ne magon nāwðer nē heora frēondum, nē heom selfum nāne goode, forðām hȳ ǣr on nānre helpe nēron nāðer nē heom sylfum nē heora frēondum, þā þe[11] ǣr heom forðgewitone wēron, ðā hȳ on þisse weorulde wēron. Ac hym byð þonne swā-swā þām mannum, þe hēr bēoð on sumes kinges[12] carcerne gebrōhte, and magon gesēon ǣlc dæge heora frēond, and geāhsian be heom þæt þæt hȳ willað, and ne magon heom þēah nā nāne gode ne bēon[13], nē hī hym þē mā, oððe nellað, oððe nē magon. Đæs hæbbað þā yfelan þē māre wīte on þǣre tōweardan weorulde, þe hȳ witan þā āre and þone wearðscype[14] þāra goodene; and ēac þæs þē māre þe hȳ gemunan æalle þā āre þe hȳ on

  1. 1.0 1.1 lazarus abraham; hyt þæt.
  2. warien.
  3. habraham.
  4. myd heoma.
  5. þæs.
  6. freoda.
  7. freodum.
  8. habraham.
  9. weron.
  10. 10.0 10.1 þa he goode; eadmod.
  11. þam þe.
  12. kincges.
  13. beoð.
  14. wearscype.