XIII. De suppliciis eorum qui coram Deo abjecli su7it.
XIII. De suppliciis eorum qui coram Deo abjecli su7it.
And what more can human mortality investigate about those things that are forgotten before God, than that those things which are thus rejected are in endless torments? The ancient serpent rejoices in these things, because he himself neither desires nor wants goodness, since he is the author of all evil and the instigator of sin. For he himself was the first to gaze upon the clarity of God, and soon began that evil which ought not to have been and could not have come to be. Every creature was made through God, but this evil, which that ancient serpent began, came to be without Him.
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Et quid plus de his quae coram Deo in oblivione sunt, humana mortalitas perscrutetur, quam quod ea quae sic abjecta sunt, in infinitis suppliciis sunt?
De his antiquus serpens gaudet, quoniam ipse bonum nec desiderat nec vult, quia auclor mali omnium malorum et peccalorura est.
Nam ipse primus oranium claritatem Dei inspexit, et mox malum illud incepit, quod esse non debuit, nec fieri potuit.
Omnis autem creatura per Deum facta est, hoc vero malum, quod ille antiquus serpens incepit, sine ipso factum est.
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