The Writings of St. Francis of Assisi

Appendix

Paschal Robinson historical translation and scholarly apparatus, 1905–1906 edition Francis of Assisi and Paschal Robinson

Source notes

[248] Luke 21: 36.

[249] See Mark 11: 25.

[250] Luke 18: 1.

[251] John 4: 24.

[252] I Peter 2: 25.

[253] See John 20: 11 and 25.

[254] See Matt. 23: 8-10.

[255] John 15: 7.

[256] Matt. 18: 20.

[257] Matt. 28: 20.

[258] John 6: 64.

[259] John 14: 6.

[260] See John 17: 6-26.

[261] The Speculum Minorum condenses this chapter.

[262] See Gen. 1: 26; 2: 15.

[263] See John 17: 26.

[264] Matt. 25: 34.

[265] See Matt. 17: 5.

[266] See Deut. 6: 5; Mark 12: 30 and 33; Luke 10: 27.

[267] See Luke 18: 19.

[268] See Matt. 19: 21.

[269] Luke 9: 62.

[270] This passage: ex quo habere poterunt breviaria, may also be rendered: “as soon as they can have breviaries.” (See Wadding, Opusc., p. 179.) But the latter translation has less foundation.

[271] See Matt. 4: 2.

[272] See Tit. 3: 2 and II Tim. 2: 14.

[273] See Luke 10: 5 and 8.

[274] See I Peter 2: 11.

[275] See Ps. 141: 6. It was this Psalm that St. Francis recited at the hour of death.

[276] See Ps. 11: 7 and 17: 31.

[277] See Rom. 9: 28.

[278] See Luke 12: 15.

[279] Matt. 5: 44.

[280] Matt. 5: 10.

[281] Matt. 10: 22.

[282] This is comformable to the original bull, which reads nec hac occasione; but most of the printed texts give ne, “lest scandal arise,” Instead of nec.

[283] See Col. 1: 23.

[284] “Plura scripta tradidit nobis,” Test. B Clarae. See Seraphicae Legislationis textus originales, p. 276.

[285] “When Clare,” he says, “and some other devout women in the Lord chose to serve under the same observance of religion, Blessed Francis gave them a little rule of life” (formulam vitae tradidit). See the bull Angelis gaudium of May 11, 1238 (Bullar. Franc., t. I, p. 242).

[286] See Bullar., I, 11 and 13: the letters Prudentibus Virginibus: Ann. Min. I, 312: Gubernatis, Orb. Seraph. II, 603: also Bullar. I, 4, n. (a). The Rule may he found in the bullCum omnis vera of Gregory IX, of May 24, 1239. See Bullar., t. I, p. 263.

[287] See Bullar., t. I, p. 242.