Lvnii. De peccato inobedientiae.
Lvnii. De peccato inobedientiae.
Disobedience is indeed the worst evil; it neither fears God nor honors man. For those who follow this fault say within themselves: 'What do we see?' And what can we do about what is imposed on us through the blind? We don't know what it is. Our justice is greater and more useful than their justice. And what good will it do us if we accomplish this work, which is imposed on us through envy and hatred? For we won't gain anything from it. For this reason, they want to overcome us. But whoever wants to place their hope in God should embrace blessed submission and obey the commands of their elders; nor should they follow the one who, while refusing to be subject to his Creator, fell from the heights of heaven to the depths of hell. These things are said about the souls of the repentant, who are being purified and saved, and they are faithful; let the faithful pay attention to these and keep them in mind as a good part of knowledge. Then I saw other spirits of the crowd, who were shouting loudly and saying, 'God will come to an end, and another will succeed him.' These people propose to others that they should not trust in God.
Read the original Latin
Inobedientia enim pessimum malum est, nec Deum timere vult, nec hominem honorat.
Nam qui hoc vitium sequuntur intra se dicunt: Wahl quid videmus? et quid facere possumus, quod nobis per coecos imponitur?
Nescimus quid sit.
Justitia enim nostra major et utilior justitia illorum est.
Et quid nobis proderit, si hoc opere perfecerimus, quod per invidiam et per odium nobis injungitur?
Nihil enim utilitatis inde consequemur.
Nam per hoc nos superare volunt. — Sed qui spem suam in Deo ponere vult, beatam subjectionem arripiat, et praecepto majorum suorum obediat; nec illum sequatur, qui dum Creatori suo subjectus esse noluit, de altitudine coeli ad ima inferni corruit.
Haec autem de poenitentium animabusjpurgandis et salvandis dicta sunt, et fidelia sunt, et fidelis his attendat, et ea in memoriam bonae scientiae componat.
Deinde praediclae multitudinis alios spiritus vidi, qui multo clamore vociFerabantur dicentes: Deus finem accipiet, et alius ei succedet.
Isti hominibus inQdelitatera proponunt, et ne in Deum ronfidant, eis persuadent.
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