LIII. De poenitentia ab avaris agenda.
LIII. De poenitentia ab avaris agenda.
And from that living light, I heard a voice again speaking to me: "What you see is true, and as you see it, so it is." Therefore, those who have embraced the worst spirits of greed and sought to avoid it, while also trying to escape its punishments, should afflict themselves with fasting and scourging, and also repay with mercy those poor people they have defrauded, as best as they can, with truth.
Read the original Latin
Et de praedicta vivente luce iterum vocem audivi dicentem ad me: Haec quae vides, vera sunt, et ut ea vides, ita sunt.
Unde homines qui pessimos spiritus avaritiam eis proponentes, optaverint devitare, et poenis ejus abesse, jejuniis et verberibus se affligant, et etiam pauperibus quos defraudaverunt, prout potuerint, misericordiam cum veritate rependant.
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