XVIIII. Deus demonstrat homini ne in confusione peccati cadat.
XVIIII. Deus demonstrat homini ne in confusione peccati cadat.
For what you see, that the man mentioned turns himself toward the North, so that he looks both at the North and the East, this is what God shows to man, so that he doesn't fall into the confusion of blindness and sin, and that he diligently avoids it, and prepares himself for the honor of true joy, since good and great knowledge is in him: for man can consider in the wheel of knowledge to which side he will lean.
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Nam quod vides, quod praedictus vir ad Septentrionem se vertit, ita quod et Septentrionem et Orientem inspicit, hoc est quod Deus homini demonstrat, ne in confusionem coecitatis et peccatorum cadat, et quod iilam strenue devitat, et quod ad honorem verae iucis se praeparet, quoniam bona et maia scientia in ipso est: homo enim in rota scientiae considerare poterit ad quam partem declinet.
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