XXIII. Quod elementa humanis iniquitatibus subvertuntur.

XXIII. Quod elementa humanis iniquitatibus subvertuntur.

But what you hear is a great voice from the elements of the world speaking to the man, saying that these are complaints, like the loudest cries, that the elements raise to their Creator. They do not speak in a human way, but show certain meanings of their own pressures; they exceed the proper order they received from their Creator, being entangled in certain foreign movements and paths, caught up in the sins of humanity: where they demonstrate that they cannot fulfill their ways and duties as they were commanded by God, because they are subverted by the iniquities of men. Therefore, the pestilence of wicked rumors and the famine of justice's failure stink, because people do not honor it properly; they also sometimes draw to themselves the smoke of the punishments of foul deeds and the shame of humanity, where they share in their filth, since people are in those things and those things are with people.