LXXXXIIII. Poena ignavorum.
LXXXXIIII. Poena ignavorum.
I saw a dark cloud and the strongest winds and the tumult of roaring storms, along with heavy rainstorms, in which those same wicked spirits also threw fire and heavy drops. But the souls that had loved laziness in this world, because they had not served God diligently, were shaken by these storms and burned by the fire that those wicked spirits cast into the same storms. The souls that loved laziness in this world, because they did not serve God diligently, were shaken by these storms, and they were burned by that fire which the same wicked spirits cast into those storms. Because they did not fear the Lord in this world, they endured these storms; and since they carelessly ignored the call to justice, they felt the same fires. And I saw, and I understood these things.
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111. £t nebulam nigram et maximos ventos et tumultus tonantium tempestalum ac pluviales tempestates vidi, in quas etiam praedicti maligni spiritus ignem veiut pluviales guttas projecerunt.
Animae autem quae in saeculo ignaviam dilexerant, ita quod Deo strenue non servierant, ab his tempestatibus quatiebantur, el ab igne illo quem iidem maligni spiritus in easdem tempestates projecerunt, urebantur.
Quia enim in timore Domini in saeculo exterritae non fuerunt, tempestates istas sustinebant; et quoniam admonitionem justitiae ignaviter neglexerant, eosdem ignes sentiebant.
Et vidi, et intellexi haec.
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