XLIIll. Pe forma zeli.
XLIIll. Pe forma zeli.
But as for the image of that man standing on the right side, it appears in human form; this means that in the righteousness and strength of God, His zeal purges and exterminates the sins of humanity, because man is made in the image of God and infused with the knowledge of good and evil, and is to be judged by the just judgments of the supreme judge, who truly discerns all things. The one who has a fiery face, because this same zeal consumes everything unjust in the fervor of his judgments like fire, does not purify everything through fire, but rather brings all evil to nothing by extermination. Therefore, it is clothed in a strong and steadfast justice, like a garment, because it judges according to what is just, and it does so in no other way than according to what is right. The fact that these things cry out against the aforementioned vices means that the zeal of the Lord exposes the devilish illusions of those vices and utterly destroys them, because those same vices are the very entrails of the ancient Serpent, and the omission of iniquity is the existence of deadly arrows that pierce humanity. Yet these will be confounded through the martyrdom of the Son of God and will be crushed by the eternal Divinity, so that they will utterly perish; where death will be destroyed forever, when God will deign to reveal His power, against which no one will be able to resist, as Job also testifies, saying:
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Quod autem ad dexteram partem praedicti viri imaginem velut in humana forma stai>tem yidcs, hoc est quod in rectitudine et in fortitudine Dei zelus ipsius peccata hominum purgaqs et exterminans apparet, quia homo ad imaginem Dei factus et scientia boni et mali infusus, per jiista judicia summi judicis, qui omnia vere dijudicat, judicandus est.
Quae faciem igneam habet, quoniam idem zelus omnia quae injusta sunt, in fervore judiciorum suorum velut ignis consumit, non quod omnia per ignem purgat, sed quod omnia mala exterminando ad nihilura deducit.
Unde et calibineo indumento induitur, quia justitia, quae fortis et constans in judiciis suis est, velut vestimentum ipsius existit, quoniam ea quae dijudicat, non alio modo quam secundum hoc quod justum est, dijudicat.
El quod haec adversum praefata vitia clamat, hoc est quod zelus Domini diabolicas illusiones praefatorum vitiorum redarguit, et eas omnino conterit, quoniam eadem vitia, ejusdem antiqui Serpentis viscera, et omissio iniquitatis ipsius existentia, mortiferas sagittas hominibus infigunt.
Quae tamen per martyrium Filii Dei confundentur, ac per aeternam Divinitatem conterentur, ita quod omnino peribunt; ubi mors in aetemum destruetur, cum Deus potestatem suam aperire dignabitur, cui nullus resistere poterit, velut etiam Job testatur dicens:
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