LXXXI. De eodem.
LXXXI. De eodem.
Those who engage in fornication with animals dishonor the glorious human nature by submitting it to the worst kind of shame, and afterward, recognizing their wicked guilt, they attempt to impose suffering on themselves for that same guilt, punishing themselves with severe fasts and harsh beatings, and they should flee from the kind of animal they have defiled, so that in repenting they do not bring scandal to the Devil.
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Se<J et qui pecoribus se commiscent, ita quod gloriosam humanam naturam huic pessimae turpitudi imraittunt, et postea facinorosum reatum suum cognoscentes, pro eodem reatu se afflictione supponere contendunt, acerrimis jejuniis ac durissimis verberibus se puniant, et genus pecoris illius, cura quo peocaverunt, deinceps fugiant, quatenus poenitendo Diabolo scandalum afferant.
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