LXn. De peccato infidelitatis.
LXn. De peccato infidelitatis.
Infidelity resists God and fights against the divine, trusting neither God nor people; yet it often says to itself, 'What am I?' What have I been? And what will I be? Those who say these things are blind; they despair of finding salvation in God, and they trust no one, because they neither want to know day nor night. For they refuse to know God, denying the day; they don't fear His judgments, nor do they care about the night; and since they are like unfaithful men, they despise God's creation, where they are also blinded in their thoughts, having no proper understanding within themselves. Therefore, it is said about them:
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Infidelitas enim Deo resistit, et contra horaines pugnat, nec Deo, nec hominibus confidit; sed multoties intra se dicit: Quid sum? quid fui? et quid ero?
Qui haec dicunt, coeci sunt; quoniam salutem in Deo esse desperant, et quoniam nulli confidunt, quoniam nec diem nec noctem scire volunt.
Nam cum Deura scire nolunt, diem abnegant; et cura judicia ejus non verentur, noctera non tiraent; et cum infideles hominibus sunt, creaturam Dei contemnunt, ubi etiam in cogitationibus suis excoecantur, cum nullam dispensationem rectam in se habent.
Quapropter et de eis dictum est:
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