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noted that here the Icelandic text anticipates mention of sins against the
mercy and justice of God at Spec. Pen. 125, a passage for which there is
a parallel at C7VIII.vi. 93A, 26-33:
Alio modo peccat quis in Deum ... Nam quandoque tentat quis ... Dei justi-
tiam ... quandoque Dei misericordiam.
Various passages from C7Y III.vi provide a source for all of the next
section of Spec. Pen. (116-129), an account of the three ways in which
one sins against oneself, and of the distinction between camal and spir-
itual sins against God (cf. C7YIll.vi. 93A, 35-43; 93B, 11-15; 93A, 22-
34).30
At the end of his discussion of spiritual sins, the Icelandic homilist
once again departs from the canonical text of C7Y and adds a list of the
various types of carnal sins: ‘homicide, theft, pillage, adultery and
things of this sort’ (Spec. Pen. 129-130). Here, as at Spec. Pen. 115-
116, the homilist anticipates the next section of his text, for a similar list
of ‘great’ or ‘capital’ sins appears a few lines later. Compare the enu-
meration of carnal sins at Spec. Pen. 129-130:
Likaml<i>gar syndir ero pessar manndrap piofnadr ran hordomur og pess
hattar.
with the list of Capital sins (said to have been distinguished by Augus-
tine) at Spec. Pen. 132-135:
Augustinus telr pessar storsyndir. pat er manndrap piofnadr ran ræna kirkiur
eda stela vr kirkium hordomur falsl<i)gur vitnisburdr. drambsemi. aufund.
agirnd reidi Oengi) halldin og ofdryckia jduiig.
It has already been noted that the homilist’s references to Augustine as
an authority cannot be counted as reliable.31 Here, in any case, he bases
the treatment of great and small sins in this section of the treatise (Spec.
Pen. 131-152) ultimately on a sermon of Caesarius of Arles, whose
work is often attributed to Augustine in medieval texts. With Spec. Pen.
132-135 compare the enumeration of capital sins in Caesarius’ Sermo
179:
30 For the Latin parallel to Spec. Pen. 116-129, see Appendix I, p. 170.
31 See discussion of Spec. Pen. 10-11 above and fn. 12.