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Vel dicit actualem impatientiam absque appetitu vindictæ: et talis motus
etiam deliberatus est peccatum veniale, quia håbet incompletam rationem
iræ, sicut ex supradicta patet diffinitione. Vel dicit impatientiam cum appeti-
tu vindictæ, et hoc est tripliciter.
One must now move to the end of this section of Hugh’s text to find a
parallel for the next sentence of the Icelandic, Spec. Pen. 215-216:
Enn daudlig synd ef hann hefir fvllan vilia til po at hann komi eigi fram
hefndinne.
This seems to be a slightly amplified rendering of C7V Il.xxiv. 116B,
37-39:
Quandoque est a voluntate deliberativa, et tune est peccatum mortale.
In the next sentence the author follows rather more closely a passage
presented a few lines earlier in CTV. Compare Spec. Pen. 216-218:
Reidi er eigi synd pa er hun skyz j hiartad af natturv svo sem peim monnum
er kallazt melancolici er nær ero jafnan styggir af natturligri hræring.
and C7Y Ill.xxiv. 116B, 30-35:
Quandoque enim hoc est a natura, sicut in melancholicis, in quibus secun-
dum Philosophum continue mordetur natura, propter quod semper sunt tur-
bulenti: et sic nullum est peccatum cum sit motus naturalis.
The author ends with what appears to be a summary of the section of
Hugh’s text immediately preceding the parallel for Spec. Pen. 213-214.
However terse the author is in rendering his text, he is careful to repro-
duce the quotation from Ps 4:5 cited in his source. Compare Spec. Pen.
218-221:
Reidi ma vera god pat er pa er madr reidizt sialfvm sier fyrir sina synd og
jdrazt beiskliga eda pa er madr reidizt af Gudz alfv glæpamonnum og hirtir
pa. par af segir david jrascemini et nolite peccare.
and C7VIll.xxiv. 116B, 10-23:
Ira igitur vel dicit iram zeli, quæ est detestatio vitii, et hæc non est peccatum,
sed est perfeetionis. Potest etiam quis sibi per hunc modum irasci, sicut dicit
Glossa super illud Psalmi iv, 5: Irascimini, et nolite peccare. Quid est, inquit,
homo pænitens, nisi irascens sibi? Vel dicit remissionem affeetus circa prox-