December 31.
In water and spirit. That is to say, the exterior and the interior. It is spirit that washes spirit as water washes the body.
Few are chosen. Few are ministers, cooperators or perfect; but happy still are those merely called, those brought in, those tolerated, those forgiven.
T146. The two times, must and restrictive only formulations remain. Chief renders the first two premier titles; king and first king of sacrifices keeps the unusual repeated royal wording. The first French relative ou has no certified accent, while the second où has a visible grave; both yield ordinary English when without emending French. The complete 31 December belongs here. No modern institutional description or historical office is supplied.
T247. The complete date 31 precedes this one paragraph. The first relative ou is printed without a certified accent; the second où has a visible grave. Both remain distinct. The obligation, restrictive n’être…que , repeated comme and final roi/premier roi are preserved literally, without smoothing the last repetition. The pre-/mier wrap remains readable in the color witness.
T147. Avowal keeps aveu distinct from the later confession. Public/secret, then/today, repentance/delirium and the two punishment modes remain. Both final but clauses preserve the emotional progression. English semicolons articulate the contrasting clauses; no medical diagnosis or specific penitential practice is independently asserted. French manifestait and étoit retain their different spellings. This undated unit is not given the preceding entry’s 31 December date.
T248. Five paragraphs remain in this undated unit: the first ends on 810 and the next four are separately indented on 811 before its first star. The page break does not create a new entry, and the date 31 is not reprinted here. The first paragraph preserves the public/secret relations, dash, then/now tense contrast and repeated mais qualifications. Manifestait literally has ai , distinct from the printed étoit . No spelling is harmonized. The second paragraph begins with italic In aquæ et spiritu. The native/color glyph is the æ ligature, not plain a , so the Latin form is retained without normalization; its grammatical relation is not repaired. The following French explanation is roman and has spaced C’est à dire , both exterior/interior and spirit/body comparisons. The third begins with italic Pauci electi. Both Latin runs include their terminal periods. In the French source, the three finite predicate nouns, following nominal happiness clause and four admitted/tolerated/pardoned terms remain, with no added finite verb in the latter. The fourth keeps only vases d’élection in quotation marks and the non-opposition formulation. The fifth preserves the nominal Réprouvés , spaced peut être , both negative constructions and literal jettés with tt . Original-size color/native 811 margins leave qui/heureux/pardonnés/communs/position/être identifiable at a qualified level, without restoring lost initials or inventing new gaps.
T148. The opening Latin is freshly interpreted in its water/spirit context. The source explicitly prints the æ ligature in In aquæ et spiritu. ; that irregular form after in remains unchanged, rather than being normalized to aqua . The complete Latin sentence and the complete English counterpart are italic through their periods. The following explanation is roman. Both washing formulations and the exterior/interior pair remain; no external biblical witness is identified. This paragraph starts on 811 within the preceding unit.
T149. The opening Latin is freshly rendered with an ordinary English copula. Few repeats; the three selected roles and four subsequent groups remain. Happy still preserves heureux encore without making an unqualified promise. Cooperators and perfect retain their technical possibilities. Pauci electi. and Few are chosen. alone are italic through their periods; the remaining paragraph stays roman.
T150. The quotation, as-they-say qualification and negative relation remain. Election preserves the theological selection term; common utensils, plural feasts and father of the household retain the domestic image. No precise scriptural locus or group is identified.
T151. The nominal/participial opening, perhaps, both negative purposes and final two participles remain. Rejected takes réprouvés in the theological reprobation discussion without making destruction the meaning the sentence explicitly denies. The pronoun’s referents are left open between the preceding vessels and the people figured by them; no new subject is supplied. The source’s negative s’en servir is recast passively as not to be used, with its unnamed user unexpanded. Literal peut être and jettés remain unchanged in French.
T152. The children image, past possibility, two speech actions and ministers remain. Have us addressed contextually reads nous faire parler as causative speech directed to us, supported by comme à des enfans and the ministerial agency. The clitic can also suggest making us speak; this remains an interpretive choice, not a uniquely certified construction. Only preserves the restriction. The source wording is unchanged, and no new intermediary is inserted. This undated unit ends before the separate ANNÉE 1815 heading.
T249. This final 1814 unit begins after its own star and ends before the horizontal rule and ANNÉE 1815 heading. That later heading and its January date do not belong to this batch. Both enfans forms, repeated nous , the imperfect restrictive ne pouvoit…que and par ses ministres remain literal. The causative nous faire parler remains syntactically unexpanded. The surrounding comme à des enfans and ministerial agency permit a recipient-directed contextual English interpretation, but the French text is not changed to certify one analysis. Color/native comparison retains the full faire beginning despite neighboring show-through; all text is roman.