Chapter 31OrdV.1.31
Obedientia
The Call Homeward
Obedience invites the daughters to follow her back to their true homeland and the welcoming embrace of the King.
I am bright Obedience — come to me, most beautiful daughters, and I will lead you back to your homeland and to the king's embrace.1
Read the original Latin
Ego lucida Obedientia – venite ad me, pulcherrime filie, et reducam vos ad patriam et ad osculum regis.
Notes
- 1 ↩The chapter title and opening self-identification of Obedientia as a speaking virtue follows the personification convention of the Ordo Virtutum. 'Bright' (lucida) may carry a sense of shining or manifest clarity; the king's 'osculum' is rendered 'embrace' to convey warmth and welcome rather than a purely liturgical kiss.
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