LXXI. De poenis eorum qui se pecorihus in fornicatione miscuerunt.
LXXI. De poenis eorum qui se pecorihus in fornicatione miscuerunt.
And I saw that evil spirits were forcing the souls of those who had mixed themselves with animals in fornication to pass through certain fires like thorns and sharp briars, striking them with fiery whips, and that those same animals were also reproaching them. Because of their inhuman mixing, they were tormented by sharp flames; and because of the lustful nature of that same mixing, they were afflicted with fiery whips; and since they had not considered what they were doing, they heard the reproaches of that same sin. And I saw and understood these things.
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Et vidi quod maligni spiritus animas illorum qui se pecoribus in fornicatione commiscuerant, per quosdam ignes velut spinas et tribulos acutos, igneis flagellis caedentes, hac et illac transire cogebant; et quod etiam eadem pecora eis improperabant.
Propter inhumanam quippe commixtionem, acuminibus ignium tstorum torquebantur; et propter contrariara ejusdem commixtionis libidinem, igneis flagellis affligebantur; et quoniam non consideraverant quid facerent, improperia ejusdem peccati audiebant.
Et vidi et intellexi haec.
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