Chapter 17OrdV.1.17
Strepitus Diaboli ad Animam illam
The Devil's Lure of Worldly Honor
The Devil taunts the Soul for her spiritual struggle and tempts her with the world's embrace and honor.
Fool, fool — what good does it do you to keep struggling? Look at the world, and it will embrace you with great honor.
Read the original Latin
Fatue, fatue quid prodest tibi laborare? Respice mundum, et amplectetur te magno honore.
Ordo Virtutum (Order of the Virtues) companion
Let a different Virtue meet you each morning
Chosen Portion walks you through the whole Ordo Virtutum — and Hildegard's Scivias — as free daily devotionals.
The Ordo was performed scene by scene by Hildegard's nuns, and Chosen Portion restores that rhythm — one scene of the Virtues' drama as each day's devotional.
- The complete 84-scene drama, one short scene per day, in modern readable English
- Each portion pairs the scene with its Scripture echoes — 26 references resolved across the play
- Finish Hildegard, then continue with 70+ other works from Europe's royal devotional archive