Senex fidelis prima credendi via Abram, beati seminis serus pater, adiecta cuius nomen auxit syllaba, Abram parenti dictus, Abraham Deo, senile pignus qui dicavit victimae, docens ad aram cum litare quis velit, quod dulce cordi, quod pium, quod unicum Deo libenter offerendum credito, pugnare nosmet cum profanis gentibus suasit, suumque suasor exemplum dedit, nec ante prolem coniugalem gignere Deo placentem, matre Virtute editam, quam strage multa bellicosus spiritus portenta cordis servientis vicerit.
The faithful patriarch who first showed the way of believing, Abram, late in life the father of a blessed progeny, whose name was lengthened by a syllable (for he was called Abram by his father, but Abraham by God), he who offered in sacrifice the child of his old age, teaching us thereby that when a man would make an acceptable offering at the altar he must willingly and with faith in God offer to Him that which is dear to his heart and the object of his love, that of which he has but one, has counselled us to war against the ungodly tribes, himself giving us an example of his own counsel, and shown that we beget no child of wedlock pleasing to God, and whose mother is Virtue, till the spirit, battling valorously, has overcome with great slaughter the monsters in the enslaved heart.
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