LXXVII. Qttaliter idem peccatiim poenitendo homines deleant.
LXXVII. Qttaliter idem peccatiim poenitendo homines deleant.
And I saw and understood these things. And from that living light, I heard again a voice saying to me: "What you see is true, and as you see it, so it is." However, if people, facing their own misfortunes, desire to overcome their troubles and wish to free themselves from the penalties of their own despair, they should either embrace a solitary life or submit themselves to the discipline of monastic obedience.
Read the original Latin
Et vidi et inlellexi haec.
Et de praedicta vivente luce vocem haec mihi dicentem iterum audivi: Haec quae vides, vera sunt, et ut ea vides, ita sunt.
Homines autem si spiritus, infelicitatem sibi proponentes, desiderant superare, et poenas praefatae diffidentiae infelicitatis de se abigere, aut solitariam vitam arripiant, aut obedientiae monasterialis conversationis se subjiciant.
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