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Barlaam oc Josaphat
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionIntroduction
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionSpread of the Christian faith to India (1)
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionKing Abenner of India, his childlessness and persecution of Christian monks
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionOne of the King’s servents becomes Christian and the King upbraids him in a dialogue (2)
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionThe servant’s sermon: Rage and Greed are our worst enemies
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionThe servant explains why he became a monk
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionThe King had decided to torture the servant to death, but instead chases him away
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionA most beautiful son is born to the King
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionVice men phrophecy that the son will be not a King of this world, but another, and will be Christian (3)
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionThe King places his son in a palace in luxurious isolation from all the suffering of the world
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionThe King’s formost and most noble servant brings home a sick man from the hunt; but he is a Christian, and the other servants plot against him before the King (4)
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionThe sick man advices the nobleman how to cope with the King’s rage, and the King forgives him, but continues his persection of Monks
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionOut hunting, the King meets monks, talks with them and then burns them
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionThe Prince wonders why he cannot go out of the palace, and one of his teachers then says that it is because the King does not want him to hear about Christian teachings (5)
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionThe Prince asks the King to go out, and he is allowed to go to places which are only pleasant.
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionThe Prince sees a leper and a blind, and becomes very depressed
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionThe Prince sees an old and crippled man on the next trip out, and is told he soon will die, as humans will
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionThe Prince goes home and reflect on death, in sorrow
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionBy the calling of the Holy Spirit the monk Barlaam seeks admission to the prince as a trader, with the pretext of selling him a jewel
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G.R. Woodward, H. Mattingly, 1914, p. 58,1
Πικρὸς ὁ βίος οὗτος καὶ πάσης ὀδύνης καὶ ἀηδίας ἀνάπλεως, εἰ ταῦτα οὕτως ἔχει. καὶ πῶς ἀμεριμνήσει τις τῇ προσδοκίᾳ τοῦ ἀδήλου θανάτου, οὗ ἡ ἔλευσις οὐ μόνον ἀπαραίτητος, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἄδηλος, καθὼς εἴπατε, ὑπάρχει;
Jacobus Billius Prunaeus, 1577 A.D., Migne no. 73, col. 459b1-459c1
Acerba haec vita est, atque omni dolore ac moestitia plena, si res ita se habet. Et quonam modo quispiam in incertae mortis exspectatione, cujus adventus non modo vitari non potest, sed etiam, ut (459c,1) dixistis, incertus est, securo animo erit?
G.R. Woodward, H. Mattingly, 1914
“Bitter is this life,” cried he, “and fulfilled of all pain and anguish, if this be so. And how can a body be careless in the expectation of an unknown death, whose approach (ye say) is as uncertain as it is inexorable?”
Holm perg. 6 fol. 3va30-4ra2
(30) Aumlegt er þessa heims lif oc heimslegt. (31) oc sorga fullt. með þui (32) at sva er. þa finnzt mer sua at (33) engi maðr mege her vruggr (4ra1) vm sik vera. er dauðinn er ollum (2) iamvis. oc þo ovis ner hann kømr
H.E.Kinck, 1852 p. 25,1
“Ynkeligt er denne Verdens Liv og faafængeligt og sörgeligt, naar saa er: Da forekommer det mig, at intet Menneske her kan være trygt og roligt, naar Döden er lige vis for Alle, og det tillige er uvist naar den kommer.”
Ed. Gimaret 1972 101,1
No Arabic
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