PRIMA VISIO, cap. XIV
The Robe of Glory and Its Loss
God clothes the first human in radiant splendor, but the devil's envy and the woman's tasting of the forbidden fruit cause both to lose that heavenly garment.
For when God created the human being, he clothed him in a heavenly garment, so that he shone with great splendor. But the devil, looking at the woman, knew that she would be the mother of a great world to come, and with the same malice by which he withdrew from God, he brought it about that he overcame the man himself in this work of his, so that the same work of God that is the human being was turned into his own fellowship.1 Then the woman, tasting the fruit of the tree and perceiving that she was becoming another being, gave the fruit to her husband, and so both lost the heavenly garment.2
Mercy in Exile and the Sacred Bond
God mercifully drives the fallen couple into exile as punishment, yet warns that violating the marriage covenant they received brings severe judgment without repentance.
God took pity on them and drove them out of paradise into this exile to punish the fault of their transgression; and whoever violates the marriage faith between them that God established will face severe punishment unless he repents.
Read the original Latin
Nam cum Deus hominem crearet, coelesti vestimento eum induit, ita ut in magna claritate fulminaret. Sed diabolus mulierem inspiciens, matrem cujusdam magni mundi eam futuram esse cognovit, ac in eadem malignitate qua a Deo recessit, effecit ut ipsum in hoc opere suo superaret, ita ut idem opus Dei quod homo est in societatem suam converteret. Tunc mulier in gustu pomi se aliam esse sentiens, pomum viro suo dedit, et sic ambo coeleste vestimentum perdiderunt.
Quod Deus, eorum misertus, ad puniendam transgressionis culpam de paradiso eos in exsilium istud expulerit; et quod quisquis matrimonii fidem inter illos a Deo institutam violaverit, ultione gravi, nisi poeniteat, plectendus sit.
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