Chapter 8Bogur.1.8
Strofa 8
The Contrast of Eternity
The verse reflects on the stark divide between the eternal joy of the Creator's presence and the reality of damnation.
There was joy, there was love, and there was the endless angelic vision of the Creator; here, the devil's damnation has been shown to us.12
Read the original Latin
Była radość, była miłość, było widzenie tworca Anjelskie bez końca, Tuć sie nam zwidziało diable potępienie.
Notes
- 1 ↩Medieval Polish 'widzenie tworca Anjelskie bez końca' read as one phrase: the endless angelic vision of the Creator (beatific vision with the angels), not a separate 'angelic creator'.
- 2 ↩'Tuć sie nam zwidziało diable potępienie': 'zwidziało się' = appeared/was revealed; 'diable potępienie' taken as the devil's damnation (diabolic condemnation), contrasted with the heavenly joy of the preceding lines.
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