Chapter 30OrdV.1.30
Virtutes
The Terror of the Judge
Pride plunges the soul into terror before the supreme Judge and into the depths of Gehenna.
But you are terrified of the supreme Judge, because, puffed up with pride, you are sunk into Gehenna.
Read the original Latin
Tu autem exterritus es per summum iudicem, quia, inflatus superbia, mersus es in gehennam.
Ordo Virtutum (Order of the Virtues) companion
Let a different Virtue meet you each morning
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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.
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