LXIIII. De tristitia saeculi formidolosa.
LXIIII. De tristitia saeculi formidolosa.
The sorrow of this world doesn't bring any joy in heaven, and it's like the wind that is useless both in greenery and in drought; for everything it touches, it scatters. But nowhere does he have a right state, saying: "Neither this nor that which is said to be in God do I know." And so all the vital things of life wither away, because the spirit does not have them. Therefore, it is divided into many parts; so that, with sorrow, it gathers everything to itself, and desires to have no joy in them, and does not call forth delight with joy, and does not stir up enmity; but when it has gathered all these things with sorrow, it hides itself in the hole of distress like a serpent, because it fears all that pass by. All these things are like death, because it neither longs for heavenly things nor trusts in the world; therefore, my zeal for it will fall, just as it is written:
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Tristitia enim saeculi gaudium in coelestibus non habet, et vento qui nec in viriditate, nec in siccitate utilis est, assimilatur; quoniara omnia quae tetigerit, dispergit.
Sed et nusquam rectum statum habens, dicit: Nec hoc, nec illud quod in Deo esse dicitur, scio.
Et sic omnia vitalia ipsius arescunt, quoniam spirituaiia spiraraina non habet.
Unde et in plurimas partes divisa est; ita quod cum moerore omnia ad se colligit, et quod nullum gaudiura in eis habere desiderat, et quod araicura cum laetitia non advocat, et quod inimicura non raitigat; sed cum omnia haec cum moerore aggregaverit, in foramen molestiae sicut coluber se abscondit, quia omnes praetereuntes pavet.
Omnibus autem his morti assimilatur, quoniam nec ad coelestia anhelat, nec in mundum confidit, et ideo zelus meus super eam •) cadet, quemadmodum scriptum est:
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