LXXXIIII. Peccata petulantium per poenitentiam delentur.
LXXXIIII. Peccata petulantium per poenitentiam delentur.
And I saw and understood these things. I heard a voice coming from the living light saying to me: 'These things are true.' For those who have sinned through petulance in this world, they are examined for the purpose of purging their punishments. But those who are devoted to this vice, if they strive to avoid the urging of evil spirits, and if they desire to escape its torment, should take up the abstinence of food and drink, and embrace the discipline of scourging themselves, doing this according to the nature of their sins and the command of their presiding judge.
Read the original Latin
Et vidi et intellexi haec.
Audivique de praefata viva luce vocem dicentem ad me: Haec vera sunt.
Qui enim in saeculo per petulantiam peccaverant, his poenis purgandis examinabantur •).
Sed homines qui hoc vitio dediti sunt, si malignos spiritus eos ad illud exhortantes devitare studuerint, et si cruciatus eius effugere desideraverint, abstinentiam ciborum et potuum arripiant, et castigationem flagellorum in se dillgant, et hoc juxta qualitatem eorumdem peccatorum, et juxta jussionem praesidentis sibi judicis faciant.
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