XVII. Verba Zeli Dei.
XVII. Verba Zeli Dei.
And this cried out against the aforementioned vices, saying: "O you entrails of the Devil, and the infusion of his wickedness, which brings death through your deadly arts upon the human race, you will be confounded in the blood of Christ, and you will perish in Alpha and Omega, for you are the worst of evils."
Read the original Latin
Et haec adversum praefata vitia clamabat dicens: <r viscera Diaboli, et in> fusio malitiarum ejus, quae in mortiferis artibus suis humano generi infert, in sanguine Christi confundemini, et in Alpha et Omega peribitis, quoniam mortf pessima estis.»
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