XXXIIII. Quod plurimi ante Legem in Lege et in baptismo beati sunt.
XXXIIII. Quod plurimi ante Legem in Lege et in baptismo beati sunt.
For the faithful prepare rest for their souls in the dwelling of beatitude through their faithful works, in which after the resurrection they will happily rest from the life of the flesh. From this, you also hear voices coming from the angelic heights in that same blessedness, praising all that governs, and glorifying the living One for ages upon ages. And so the souls of the just are lifted up in joy and proceed from life to life, nor do they depart from it, because they will remain in it eternally; just as the wheels of life, signifying the Divinity, move in the Spirit that goes without delay to sanctify baptism, for instruction and for the foundation of the present hour, and they will not cease from it, because no other teaching that leads to life will be produced.
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Nam fideies homines per fidelia opera in habitaculo beatitudinis animabus suis requiem parant, in qua post consuraraatara vitam carnis feliciter requiescunt.
Unde etiam in eadem beatitudine, audis vocera ab angelica celsitudine procedentem, ut laudent cuncta regentera, et ut glorificent in saecula saeculorum viventem.
Et sic animae eorumdera justorum in gaudio elevantur, ac in vita ad vitam procedunt, nec ab illa recedunt, quoniam in ea aeternitaliter permanebunt; sicut et rotae vitae, Divinitatem significantes, in eunte Spiritu, qui sine mora baptismum sanctificat, ad eruditionem et ad eraundationera horainura vadunt, nec ab illa cessabunt, quia alia doctrina quae horaines ad vitam perducat, non producetur.
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