LXXXII. De eodem.
LXXXII. De eodem.
For a person who sins with animals through fornication, it’s like someone who prepares a clay vessel and claims it to be their god; thus, they dishonor God because they join the rational with the irrational and contrary nature. Such a person is likened to a hard and cold stone, for their hardness is great, to the point that they forget the honor for which they were created; and the greatest coldness is that they extinguish the fire of the Spirit’s ardor in their intellect when they commit this sin in the worst blindness. Therefore, the soul of that person, which is inextinguishable in the vessel of their body, grieves when they commit this sin, because it is worse than worms, which do not depart from their nature.
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Homo enim qui cum pecoribus per fornicationem peccat, facit sicut ille qui vas fictile parat, et hoc Deum suum esse dicit, et sic Deum inhonorat, quia rationalitatem irrationaii et contrariae naturae conjungit Iste duro et frigido lapidi assimilatur, quoniam magna duritia est, quod homo ita obduratur, quod ad quem honorem creatus sit, non recordatur; atque maximum frigus est, quod in intellectu suo ignem ardoris Spiritus Sancti extinguit, cum peccatum istud in pessima coecitate perficit.
Quapropter anima iilius, quae inextinguibilis est in vase corporis sui, dolet, cum ille peccatum hoc perpetrat, quoniam istud nequius vermibus est, qui de natura sua non recedunt.
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