IX. De levioribus poenis eorum qui bapiismo carent
IX. De levioribus poenis eorum qui bapiismo carent
And I saw darkness, like a vast cloud spread out in the immense void, filled with various torments; yet in that place, I saw no punishments from fire or worms or other severe tortures, but only certain souls that were bound without the weight of other sins due to the judicial case of Adam, lacking the sign of baptism. Some souls endured a certain smoke, while others endured no smoke at all, in the same darkness. For those souls did not endure severe torments, but they had the darkness of unbelief, because while they were in their bodies without the burden of other sins, they were bound by the judicial case of Adam, lacking the sign of baptism; but those who had been ensnared by certain lighter sins endured the aforementioned smoke, and those who had been relieved from both lighter and heavier sins did not have the sign of the Catholic faith, but they did not have the smoke of those same shadows, rather they endured the darkness of unbelief, as has been said.
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Et vidi tenebras, diversis cruciatibus velut nebulam in immensum diffusas, in quibus tamen quodam loco nullas poenas ignium aut vermium aut aliorum gravium cruciatuum aspiciebam, sed tantum quasdam animas, quae absque pondero aliorum peccatorum judiciali casu Adae constrictae, signo baptismalis carebant.
De quibus aliae quemdam fumum, aliae autem nullum fumum, in eisdem tenebris sustinebant.
Nam animae istae gravia tormenta non patiebantur, sed tenebras infidelitatis habebant, quoniam dum in corporibus suis fuissent absque pondere aliorum peccatorum, judiciali casu Adae constrictae, signo baptismatis carebant; sed illae quae quibusdam levioribus peccatis irretitae fuerant, praefatum fumum sustinebant, et illae quae tam a levioribus quam a gravioribus peccatis alleviatae, signum tamen catholicae fidei non habuerant, fumum earumdem tenebrarum non habebant, sed incredulitatis tenebras, ut praedictum est, substinebant.
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