Verba Domini ad sponsam, qualiter ipse sit in Christianorum animabus cibus abhominabilis et despectus et per contrarium mundus in eis sit delectabilis et dilectus, et de iudicio terribili contra tales illato.
The Rejected Guest
Christ laments that modern Christians treat Him with the same hostility as the Jews, casting Him out of the temple of their souls.
The Son spoke to the bride: "Christians today do to me just as the Jews did to me." They cast me out of the temple, and they had a full intention to kill me, but because my hour had not yet come, I slipped out of their hands. This is how Christians treat me now. They cast me out of their temple—that is, out of their soul, which ought to be my temple—and they would gladly kill me if they could. I am in their mouths like rotting, foul-smelling meat, and I seem to them like a man telling lies, and they don't care about me at all. They turn their backs on me, and I will turn my back on them, because there is nothing in their mouths but greed, and in their flesh, the lust of a beast. In what they hear, only pride pleases them; in what they see, the delights of the world. Yet my Passion and my love are detestable to them, and my life is a burden. I will act like an animal with many hiding places: when hunters chase it from one, it flees to another. I will do the same, because Christians pursue me with their evil deeds and cast me out from the hiding place of their hearts.
The Offer of Mercy
Despite the rejection, Christ offers His mercy to any who will humbly acknowledge their sin and seek His grace.
Therefore, I want to go to the pagans, in whose mouths I am now bitter and tasteless, and I will be sweeter to them than honey. Yet I am still so merciful that whoever asks for forgiveness and says, 'Lord, I acknowledge that I have sinned gravely and I willingly want to amend myself through your grace,' 'Have mercy on me for the sake of your bitter passion!' I will joyfully receive that person.
The Coming Judgment
For those who persist in wickedness, Christ promises to return with overwhelming terror, strength, and severity.
But for those who persist in their wickedness, I will come to them like a giant, bearing three things: terror, strength, and severity. I will come to Christians as someone so terrifying that they won't dare move even the smallest finger against me. I will come with such power that they will be like gnats before me. Third, I will come to them with such severity that they will experience woe in the present, and woe without end.
Read the original Latin
Filius loquebatur ad sponsam: "Sic faciunt michi Christiani nunc, sicut Iudei fecerunt michi. Ipsi eiecerunt me de templo et habebant perfectam voluntatem interficiendi me, sed quia nondum venerat hora mea, exiui de manibus eorum.
Sic Christiani faciunt michi nunc. Ipsi eiciunt me de templo suo, idest de anima eorum, que templum meum esse deberet, et libenter occiderent me, si possent.
Ego sum in ore eorum quasi caro putrida et fetens et videor eis quasi homo loquens mendacium, et nichil curant de me. Ipsi vertunt ad me dorsum et ego ad eos vertam occiput, quia in ore eorum nichil est nisi cupiditas, in carne luxuria quasi iumenti. In auditu eorum placet sola superbia, in visu delectabilia mundi.
Passio vero mea et caritas mea est eis abhominabilis et vita mea grauis.
Propterea ego faciam sicut animal illud facit, quod multa habet latibula: quod cum persecutum a venatoribus fuerit in uno latibulo, fugit in aliud. Sic ego faciam, quia Christiani persequuntur me malis operibus suis et eiciunt me de latibulo cordis sui.
Ideo ingredi volo ad paganos, in quorum ore nunc sum amarus et insipidus, et ero in ore eorum dulcis super mel. Attamen adhuc ita sum misericors, quod, quicumque pecierint veniam et dixerint: 'Domine, ego cognosco me grauiter peccasse et libenter volo me emendare per graciam tuam. Miserere mei propter amaram passionem tuam!' , ego gaudenter suscipio eum.
Qui autem perstiterint in malo suo, veniam eis quasi gigas, qui habet tria, scilicet terribilitatem, fortitudinem et asperitatem.
Sic ego veniam Christianis terribilis, ut non minimum digitum audeant mouere contra me. Veniam et sic fortis, quod quasi culex erunt ante me. Tercio veniam eis sic asper, quod ve sencient in presenti et ve sine fine."
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