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Chapter 41LiVM.1.41

LI. Animae corpora sua in fine mundi recipient

LI. Animae corpora sua in fine mundi recipient

But those who burn with love for Him in the presence of God receive the answer that these same dwellings will not be received before the divine command and before the shaking of the elements, when the strongest fire will purify the elements, where God will manifest His great power. For the voice of God will raise all the dead, both the damned and the castaway, and then they will rise with their bodies to eternity, because their bodies will be changed for an unchangeable life when they rise, even though death receives these and even though blessed life receives those. Justice fights against the Devil in Christ. However, the wind, over which the aforementioned bright cloud is, stretches from the East to the North; this signifies that justice, bearing the pure works of virginity in Christ, fights against the wickedness of the Devil, with the same works rising in the dawn of truth, which it could not do before Christ. For just as a man, first made of flesh, then transformed himself to a spiritual life, so too the old Law, which was revealed in a certain holiness, later became life in Christ and in the Church, and holiness arose in life, and the ancient enemy was utterly crushed. To which the old Law could not rebel.

Read the original Latin

Sed ab illis qui in conspectu Dei in amore ejus ardent, responsum accipiunt, quod eadem habitacula non recipiant ante divinam jussionem, et ante concussionem elementorum, cum fortissimus ignis elementa purgabit, ubi Deus magnam potentiam suam manifestaiit.

Nam vox Dei omnes mortuos tam reprobos quam eiectos suscitabit, et tunc cum corporibus suis ad aeternitatem surgent, quia ad incommutabilem vitam corpora eorum mutabuntur, cum resurgunt, quamvis mors istos et quamvis beata vita illos recipiat.

LIL Justitia in Christo contra Diabolum pugnat.

Quod autem ventus super quem praefata lucida nubes est, cum eadem lucida nube ab Oriente ad Septentrionem se dilatat, hoc est quod justitia, ferens candida opera virginitatis in Christo, cum eisdem operibus in ortu veritatis surgentibus, contra nequitias Diaboli pugnat; quod ante Christum pieniter facere non potuit.

Nam ut homo, primum carnalis factus, ad spiritalem vitam deinde se transtulit, sic etiam vetus Lex, in sanctitate camaliter ostensa, postmodum in Christo et in Ecclesia vita facta est, ac sanctitas in vita surrexit, ac antiquum hostem penitus contrivit. cui vetus Lex rebellarc non potuit.

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