LXXVIin. De poena immoderaioi^um.
LXXVIin. De poena immoderaioi^um.
I saw a certain sea of remarkable length and breadth, which was entirely mixed with sulfur and burned fiercely with the strongest fire. In this, their souls were tormented, those who, while they were in their bodies, had indulged in words and deeds and in all the movements of their bodies and thoughts with immoderation; and they who did things that were inappropriate did not want to moderate themselves. For because of the sins in which they had become defiled, they were submerged in the waters of that same sea; and because of the oblivion in which they did not want to know God, they were afflicted by that sulfur; and because of their neglect of God's law, they were punished by that same fire. And I saw and understood these things.
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El mirae longitudinis et latitudinis quoddam mare vidi, quod totum sulphure permixCum, fortissimo igne fervebat.
In isto animae illorum torquebantur, qui dum in corpofibus suis cssent, in verbis et factis suis ac in omnibus motibus corporis sui ac cogitationura suarum immoderationem habuerant; et qui ea quae inconvenienter faciebant, moderari noluerant.
Nam propter peccata, in quibus sorduerant, aquis ejusdem maris immersae erant, et propter oblivionem, qua Deum scire noluerant, sulphure illo afficiebantur, et propter neglectum legis Dei eodem igne puniebantur.
Et vidi et intellexi haec.
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