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Chapter 10LiVM.6.10

XI. Iterum de infidelibus baplismo carenlibus.

XI. Iterum de infidelibus baplismo carenlibus.

And again, I heard a voice speaking to me from the living light, saying: "What you see is true, and as you see it, so it is, and there is more to it than this." For in the aforementioned earlier darkness, there is weeping and gnashing of teeth; but in the place where you do not see the punishments of severe torments, the souls of certain people and others are held in ignorance of their sins, in the world of the living, before the banner of the victory of the Son of God. In those, even now, the souls, not weighed down by the burden of sins, but marked by the fiery sign of the sacred font that has not been signed, exist, because they do not have the vision of true faith, suffering the penalties of the same smoke to others who are burdened by the opinions of certain secular contagions, while others endure the same simple torments simply due to their ignorance of faith. 226 s. niLDKGAnDis

Read the original Latin

Et iterum de praefata vivente luce vocem mihi dicentem audivi: Haec quae vides, vera sunt, et ut ea vides, ita sunt, et plura sunt.

Nam in praedictis prioribus tenebris fletus et stridor dentium est; sed in loco in quo poenas gravium cruciatuum non vides, animae quorumdam hominum et aliorum in ignorantia peccatorum, in saeculo viventium, ante vexillatam victoriam Filii Dei tenebantur, in quibus etiam et nunc animae, pondere peccatorum non gravatae, sed igneo signo sacrati fontis nonsignatae, sunt, quoniam aspectum rectae fidei non habent, aliis pro opinione gustus quarumdam saecularium contagionum poenas ejusdem fumi sustinentibus, aliis autem pro simplici ignorantia fidei easdem simplices tenei>ras simpliciter patientibus. 226 s. niLDKGAnDis

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