Chapter 72OrdV.1.72
Diabolus
The Devil's Challenge
The Devil questions the soul's identity, recalls past seduction, and now threatens to cast it down in battle.
What are you, or where do you come from? You embraced me, and I led you out. But now in your return you confound me — I, however, will cast you down by my fight!
Read the original Latin
Que es, aut unde venis? Tu amplexata es me, et ego foras eduxi te. Sed nunc in reversione tua confundis me – ego autem pugna mea deiciam te!
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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