De prenosticacione hujus victorie.
A Prussian's Prophecy Fulfilled
A Prussian seer foretells the slaughter of the Sambians on the feast of St. Vincent, is mocked when the pilgrims withdraw, but stands firm invoking the fate of Dathan and Abiron — and the prophecy is fulfilled.
A certain Prussian foretold this slaughter of the Sambians, and he kept insisting it would actually happen — so much so that he dared to say, on pain of his own life, he did not know by what spirit, to the brothers at Königsberg: on the feast day of blessed Vincent the Sambians will be cut down. But when the army of the pilgrims withdrew on the same day, he was taunted for his lie. He, still standing firm in his first claim, said: 'Today the Sambians will yet be cut down, or the earth will open its mouth and swallow them alive like Dathan and Abiron — and just as he had said, so it happened.'✦
Read the original Latin
Hane stragem Sambitarum predixit quidam Pruthenus, et sic affirmative confirmabat ipsamd futuram, quod ausus fuit dicere sub pena capitis sui, nescio quo spiritu, ad fratres de Kunigsbergk: in die beati Vincencii Sambite occidentur. Sed cum exercitus peregrinorum eodem die recederet, improperatum fuit ei mendaciy. m, qui adhuc firmus stans in primo proposito ait: adhuc hodie Sam bite occidentur, vel terra aperiet 6s suum, et sicut Dathan et Abiron deglutiet eos vivos, et sicut predixerat, factum est.
Scripture echoes
- ↩Num.16.31-Num.16.33 — And it came to pass, when he had finished speaking all these words, that the ground that was under them split open. Num.16.32 — and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and their households, and all the people who belonged to Korah, and all their possessions Num.16.33 — They went down alive into Sheol, along with all that belonged to them; the earth closed over them, and they perished from the assembly.
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