XVI. liesponsum salvatiotiis animarum.

XVI. liesponsum salvatiotiis animarum.

And again, I heard a voice from that dark cloud responding to this image. And when they do what you reject, where do you want to send them to perish, but you cannot? For the blessed rise up under the banner with the angelic multitude, and they run swiftly against you, as if in great thirst, longing to overwhelm you, just like a deer desires to drink from the flowing waters. For they will overwhelm you in baptism and in the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit, which appeared in the humanity of the Savior, as if in a flood of waters. This is your downfall, because you are against God. But I am the building of all good things, and the tower of Jerusalem in the works of the saints. Through the ram hanging in thorns, which pointed to Christ, I receive the repentant, and the simple through the faith of baptism, and the innocent through the anointing of the Holy Spirit I firmly hold, because through the pure virginity that flourished in the flesh of Christ like a lily, I have been restored on the way of salvation, whence I am also the cohort of God. xvn. The roar of the lion. And behold, before the man just mentioned, a lion stood, who had turned himself against these vices, and he let out a great roar with the wind, crying out: "O diabolical vices, in the burning fire I will strip you bare, and in that same stripping, I will lead you to your end, because you always contend against the justice of God and me."