LI. De poenitentia invidiae.
LI. De poenitentia invidiae.
And I saw and understood these things, and I heard a voice from the living light saying to me again: "These things that you see are true." Therefore, if people want to avoid these terrible spirits that suggest envy and hatred to them, they should discipline themselves with sackcloth and hair shirts, and bow their knees to God, since they have provoked many with envy and have stripped many of their prosperity through envy and hatred.
Read the original Latin
Et vidi et intellexi haec, audivique vocem de praefata vivente luce iterum mihi dicentem: Haec quae vides, vera sunt.
Unde homines si hos pessimos spiritus invidiam et odium sibi suggerentes, et poenas istas devitare voluerint, cilicio et Hagellis se castigent, ac genua sua ad Deum inclinent, quoniam multos invidiose irritaverunt, et quoniam multos per invidiam et odium prosperitatibus suis despoliaverunt.
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