LXVIIII. De eorum qui votMm castitatis violaverunt foenis purgatoriis, •

LXVIIII. De eorum qui votMm castitatis violaverunt foenis purgatoriis, •

I also saw in a great height of some air, where hail mixed with fire and frost was falling down. And in that height were the souls of those who had endured harshness in their bodies; they had vowed their chastity to God, but they had violated that same vow, and from that height they fell, and again they were cast back like leaves in the wind, bound by a certain bond of darkness so tightly that they could not move, while hail, fire, and frost fell upon them. And the wicked spirits were making accusations against them, shouting, "Why have you shamefully abandoned the vow you made?" For the sake of the vow of chastity that they did not fulfill, they fell from that height; and because of the oblivion in which they did not want to remember their vow, while they freely sinned, they lay bound in the same darkness; and because of the pleasure of the flesh, which they had placed above the love of God, they endured the hail of fire and this cold.