XII. Sonus aenei Fustis.
XII. Sonus aenei Fustis.
10. You mock the ruin that is yours, wanting to rise to the heights against God, while you descend into hell, stripped of all honor and cast away from all happiness; I lay you low in confusion, and like a putrid corpse, I cast you aside, because you are in the throat of the ancient serpent, and from his mouth you bubble forth to deceive men. For you pour out a foam of filth over them with fervent wounds, and you strike them with fiery darts of trivial deeds; you blow forth the fury of murder against them, and you kill them; and in this way, you rush upon them hastily, so that they abandon the justice of God and despise God Himself. And in your schemes, you desire to bring all of God's works to confusion. Therefore, I wage war against you through the things I reject; and thus I manifest the strength of God in you, when you are brought to nothing.
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10. c irrisiones perditionis, quae Deo vos opponitiSy volentes culmen ascende* > re, ubi in infernum descenditis, ab omni honore vos abstraho, et ab omni felicitate vos projicio, ac in confusionem vos prosterno, atque sicut putridum cadaver vos abjiqio, quoniam in gutture antiqui serpentis estis, et ex ore ejus ad decipiendum homines ebullitis.
Nam ferventibus vulneribus spumam immunditiarum super illos funditis, et igneis jaculis parvorum operum eos percutitis, atque furorem homicidii exsufflantes, eos mortificatis; et hoc modo festinanter in illos ♦) irruitis, quatenus justitiam Dei derelinquant, et ut ipsum Deum con> temnant.
Et in his machinationibus vestris, desideratis ut omnia opera Dei du> catis in confusionem.
Quapropter bella contra vos colo, per quae vos abjicio; et > sic fortitudinem Dei in vobis manifesto, cum ad nihilum deducimini.»
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