Humilitas
The Ancient Dragon Cast Down
Humility, together with the virtues, identifies the ancient dragon who sought to exalt himself above the highest and was cast down by God into the abyss.
I know well, along with my companions, that you are that ancient dragon who wanted to fly above the highest — but God himself cast you down into the abyss.✦✦
Read the original Latin
Ego cum meis sodalibus bene scio quod tu es ille antiquus dracho qui super summum volare voluisti – sed ipse deus in abyssum proiecit te.
Scripture echoes
- ↩Rev.12.9 — And the great dragon was thrown down—the ancient serpent, the one called the Devil and Satan, the one who deceives the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
- ↩Isa.27.1 — In that day the LORD will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.
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
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