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LXXII. De poenitentia contendentium

LXXII. De poenitentia contendentium

Therefore, those who strive to expel evil spirits and persuade themselves to do so, wishing to escape the torments of that contention which they have committed through their actions, should afflict their bodies with fasting and abstain from rich foods, and also discipline themselves with blows. But those who only argued with words, without actions, would merely impose on themselves a fast from food and drink.

Read the original Latin

Quapropter homines qui malignos spiritus, contentionem sibl persuadentes, de se expellere studuerint, et tormenta ejusdera contentionis, quam operibus perpetraverunt, effugere optaverint, carnes suas jejuniis macerent, et a pinguibus cscis se abstineant, atque verberibus se castigent.

Qui autem sine operibus, verbis tantum contendere solebant, abstinentiam ciborum et potuum solummodo sibi iroponant.

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