LXI. De poenitentia infidelitatis.
LXI. De poenitentia infidelitatis.
And I saw and understood these things. And again, I heard a voice speaking to me from the living light, saying: "What you see is true." But those who wither in infidelity, so that the spirit may suggest to them to overcome it, and to escape from these punishments, discipline themselves with fasting and scourging, with prayers and kneeling, so that divine power may turn away from them the deeds and words of infidelity.
Read the original Latin
Et vidi et intellexi haec.
Et iterum de praefata vivente luce audivi vocem mihi dicentem: Haec quae vides, vera sunt.
Homines autem qui in infidelitate tabescunt, ut spiritus illam sibi suggerentes exsuperent, et ut de poenis istis se eripiant, jejuniis et flagellis, orationibus et genuum flexionibus se castigent, quatenus divina virtus facta et dicta infidelitatis ab eis avertat.
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