LV. De poenitentia pro inconstantia.
LV. De poenitentia pro inconstantia.
And I saw and understood these things. And from that living light, I heard a voice speaking to me again: "What you see is true." However, those who encourage others to abandon the worst spirits of inconstancy, wishing to flee from their own faults and escape their punishments, if they are worldly, should gather themselves to a spiritual life; or if they are spiritual, they should more strictly discipline themselves in their own way of life with all the truth's discipline, so that they may cast off the wickedness of this fault. For this reason, it speaks among people, saying:
Read the original Latin
Et vidi et intellexi haec.
Et de praefata vivente luce iterum vocem audivi dicentem ad me: Haec quae vides, vera sunt.
Horaines autem qui pessimos spiritus ad inconstantiam eos exhortantes, de se voluerint fugare, et poenas ejus effugere desideraverint, si saeculares sunt, ad spiritalem vitam se colligant; vel si spiritales sunt, in eadem conversatione sua cum omni disciplina veritatis acrius se solito coerceant, quatenus nequitiam vitii hujus de se abjiciant.
Iliud enim in hominibus sic loquitur dicens:
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