X. Responsio pacis.

X. Responsio pacis.

And again, from that troubled cloud, I heard a voice responding to the same image: 'You are the hissing and fiery heat of insults, the bloody crime, and the gnashing of teeth, and in the variety of injuries, you boil, so that you may shed blood, and thus you wish to walk according to your will, wherever it pleases you.' But you also carry great cruelty in your words, through which you harm many and dishonor those who seek gentleness. For you destroy good counsel and peaceful minds, and you bring them to an end with your deception. You see no dwelling place of peace in anything, nor do you desire it, nor do you wish for it; instead, like a serpent, you wrap yourself in a cave, and through your darts, you inflict wounds on each person, because you are akin to the sting of the biting worms, which especially bring death to humans; and therefore, you are the shadow of death and the worst poison and swift destruction of mankind. But I am the medicine for all, whom you pursue; I heal those whom you wound; and I consider all restless battles and idle chatter as nothing, because I am the mountain of myrrh and incense and all aromatic substances, and I am the column of cloud on the highest mountain, since I draw all good things to myself and I ascend above all the heavens. Therefore, I will continually weigh down upon you, and in your injury, I will not give you any rest. The sixth image was similar to a man, and it had black hair, and it lacked clothing, but it covered itself with broad leaves of certain herbs, and with its hands, it struck its own chest.