ACC ~ Mark 6 v50

HOW EASILY CAN I BE SHIPWRECKED

PRUDENTIUS:

Thus I by my loquacious tongue

From the heaven of silence am led

Into perils unknown and dark.

Not as Peter, disciple true,

Confident in his virtue and faith,

I am as one whose unnumbered sins

Have shipwrecked on the rolling seas… .

How easily can I be shipwrecked,

One untaught in seafaring arts,

Unless you, almighty Christ,

Stretch forth your hand with help divine.[1]

AGAINST SYMMACHUS 2.[2]

Mk

[1]Cf. Mt 14:31.

[2]Cetedoc 1442, 2.44; FC 52:140-41**. Amid our human shipwreck, we may now turn to the saving Lord amid the tumult of the sea.