LXIII. Verba David ad eamdetn rem.

LXIII. Verba David ad eamdetn rem.

Let them fall away from their thoughts according to the multitude of their impieties; cast them out, for they have provoked you, Lord. This should also be understood in this way. The wicked, in the futility of their own wickedness, will fall, without consolation and without the salvation of praise and glory, remaining empty of their own thoughts. Therefore, you who justly manage all things according to the weight of their burdens, since they are many, cast them away from you, those who provoke you and have thrown you away from themselves. Indeed, there is great impiety among those people who, although they could know what is just and do it successfully, disdain both knowing and doing, but instead turn to things that do not concern them, which they neither see nor understand; and they consider this to be something worthwhile, when it is not. This kind of impiety is such that it establishes and arranges everything as if it were the creator of that thing, and it holds many things in contempt because it always looks to what is foreign. Therefore, those who associate with her are nothing, because they provoke God and are reduced to nothing; for they reject the glory of God and the joy that is in God; and because they do not honor God, just as no man honors his enemy. But blessed are those who love God! Let them flee the works of infidelity, and holding fast to all good, let them join themselves to God, because they prefer to be with Him rather than with the Devil. These things are said about the souls of the penitent, to be purified and saved, and they are faithful, and let the faithful pay attention to these, and let them keep these in their memory for good understanding. But I also saw other spirits of the same multitude, who were crying out like this: 'Let us hurry, so that Lucifer may fulfill his will.' These people incite despair, and they shouldn't place their hope in the one who created them.