Chapter 44OrdV.1.44
Virtutes
Held in the King's Embrace
The soul, addressed as daughter of the king, is embraced by a love the world shuns, and rejoices in the sweetness of the most high God.
O daughter of the king, you are always held in the embraces that the world flees. O how sweet your love is in the most high God!
Read the original Latin
O filia regis, tu semper es in amplexibus quos mundus fugit. O quam suavis est tua dilectio in summo deo!
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