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Chapter 48LiVM.1.48

LXI. Mcdigni spiritus Deum fugiunt.

LXI. Mcdigni spiritus Deum fugiunt.

But that cloud of evil spirits is full of those who wander here and there, plotting traps for people, and who are ashamed of the man mentioned earlier, because in that same infidelity there are countless evil spirits of the devil who roam about, producing many wickednesses, and they flee from God, blushing, because they have no happiness and do not desire to have any, but are in the damnation of eternal destruction.

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Ipsa autem nubes malignorum* spirituum plena est, qui in ea hac et illac vagantur, et hominibus insidias machinantur, ac qui praedictum virum erubescunt, quoniam in eadem infidelitate innumerabilium malorum diabolici spiritus sunt et discurrunt, et plurimas nequitias producunt, et Deum erubescentes fugiunt, quia nullam beatitudinem habent, nec habere desiderant, sed in damnatione perpetuae perditionis sunt.

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