LXII. Insidiae Diaboli in electos.
LXII. Insidiae Diaboli in electos.
But what you hear is the ancient Serpent within, speaking of how he prepares his strength for fortifications and fights against his enemies as much as he can. This means that the same ancient enemy, in the pride of his exaltation, produces various vices of these snares, with which he tires and deceives the elect of God, and does not allow them to have any peace. From this, he also spews forth a froth of many impurities, along with all vices, from his mouth among people, and he inflates a great deal of mockery against them, because he belches forth the filth of many vices from the opening of his own perversion, leading many seductions and many heresies among people, while teaching some to serve idols and others to serve various wickednesses. He says that those who call themselves enlightened by their bright deeds are made to act in darkness, as if they were nocturnal and horrible creatures, because they contend that the chosen of God, who shine in holy works, are harmful and filthy in their obscure actions, and that their reputation stinks before men.
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Sed quod audis antiquum Serpentem intra se dicentem, quod vires fortitndinis suae ad propugnacula praeparet, et contra inimicos suos quantum possit pugnet, hoc est, quod idem antiquus hostis, in exaltatione superbiae suae, diversa vitia insidiarum harum producit, cum quibus electos Dei fatigando decipiat, nec eos ullam quietem habere permittat.
Unde etiam spumam •) multarum immunditiarum cum omnibus vitiis ab ore suo inter homines emittit, ac plurimam irrisionem eis inflat, quoniam sordes plurimorum vitiorum ab hiatu perversitatis suae evomens, multas seductiones ac multas haereses hominibus inducit, cum istos idolis, illos plurimis pravitatibus servire docet.
Et dicit quod illos, qui per lucida opera se soles nominant, noxiales et nocturnos ac horribiies in tenebris faciat, quia electos Dei qui in sanctis operibus fulgent, nocivos ac in obscuris actibus sordentes esse contendit, et notitiam eorum coram hominibus foetere.
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