# Carmen Paschale 5.1.414-438

Sedulius, Carmen Paschale, Book 5, lines 5.1.414-5.1.438. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/sedulius/carmen-paschale/5.1.414

Hoc terno sermone monens, ut terna negantis
Culpa recens parili numero purgata maneret.
Inde sequenda docens, Pacem omnes, inquit, habete,
Pacem ferte meam, pacem portate quietam,
Pacem per populos monitis dispergite sanctis,
Et mundum vacuate malis: gentesque vocari
Finibus e cunctis, latus qua tenditur orbis,
Iussis mando meis, omnesque in fonte lavari.
Hæc ubi dicta pio Dominus sermone peregit,
Bethaniæ mox arva petit: coramque beatis
Qui tantum meruere viris spectare triumphum,
æthereas evectus abit sublimis in auras.
Ad dextram sedet ipse Patris totumque gubernat
Iure suo, qui cuncta tenens excelsa, vel ima,
Tartara post cœlum penetrat, post tartara cœlum.
Illi autem lætis cernentes vultibus, altas
Ire super nubes Dominum, tractusque coruscos
Vestigiis calcare suis, veneranter adorant,
Sidereasque vias alacri sub corde reportant,
Quas cunctos doceant: testes nam iure fideles
Divinæ virtutis erant, qui plura videntes,
Innumerabilium scripserunt pauca bonorum.
Nam si cuncta sacris voluissent tradere chartis
Facta redemptoris, nec totus cingere mundus
Sufficeret densos per tanta volumina libros.

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