Verba Ambrosij ad sponsam de prece bonorum pro populo, et quomodo per gubernatores domini seculares et ecclesie et per procellas superbia, et cetera, et per portum introitus veritatis designantur et de vocatione sponse in spiritum.
A Cry for the Perishing
The friends of God intercede for a people lost in the storms of life due to the greed of their leaders.
It is written that the friends of God once cried out, begging Him to tear open the heavens and descend to set His people Israel free. In these times, the friends of God cry out in the same way, saying: 'O most kind God, we see countless people perishing in dangerous storms because their leaders are greedy, always wanting to land in those territories where they think they'll gain the most profit for themselves.' They lead themselves and the people into places where the waves crash most violently, while the people remain unaware of the harbor of safety; because of this, a vast multitude of people is miserably imperiled, with very few finding their way to the true harbor. Therefore, we ask you, King of all glory, to deign to illuminate the harbor, so that the people may be able to avoid their dangers and not obey wicked leaders, but rather be brought back to the true harbor by your blessed light.
The Blindness of Leadership
Leaders who prioritize their own will over the care of souls lead their followers into ruin.
By these governors, I mean everyone who holds authority in the world, whether in temporal or spiritual matters. Most of them love their own will so much that they don't give a thought to the good of souls or of those under their care; instead, they willingly entangle themselves in the fiercest storms of the world—namely, pride, greed, and impurity. The community, believing it's on the right path, mimics the misery of its own actions, and in doing so, destroys both itself and those under its care by following every desire of its own will.
The Harbor of Truth
God reveals the truth of the Gospel to the soul, calling her to share this light with a world that has lost its way.
By the harbor, I mean the entrance to truth, which is now so obscured before many that when someone points out the way to the harbor of the heavenly homeland—which is the most sacred Gospel of Christ—they claim he is lying, for they follow the works of those who throw themselves into any sin whatever, rather than believing the words of those who preach the Gospel truth. By the light that the friends of God were seeking, I understand some divine revelation happening in the world, so that the love of God might be renewed in the hearts of people, and His justice neither forgotten nor neglected. And so, out of His mercy and in response to the prayers of His friends, it has pleased God to call you into the Holy Spirit to see, hear, and understand spiritually, so that you might reveal to others what you have heard in the Spirit, according to God's will.
Read the original Latin
Scriptum est, quod amici Dei olym clamabant rogantes Deum dirumpere celum et descendere ad liberandum populum suum Israel. Similiter et in istis temporibus amici Dei clamabant dicentes: 'O, benignissime Deus, nos videmus populum innumerabilem in periculosis procellis perire, quoniam gubernatores auidi sunt illis terris iugiter applicare volentes, ubi sibi ipsis maius lucrum existimant prouenire.
Illic se et populum ducentes, ubi horribiliores sunt iactus undarum nesciente populo securitatis portum et ob hoc miserabiliter periclitatur populus infinitus nimis paucis venientibus ad bonum portum.
Ideo rogamus te, omnis glorie regem, ut portum illuminare digneris, quatinus populus vitare sua pericula valeat et iniquis gubernatoribus non parere, sed ad portum rectum reduci lumine tuo benedicto.'
Per istos vero gubernatores intelligo omnes potestatem habentes corporaliter et spiritualiter in mundo. Plerique enim illorum in tantum diligunt voluntatem propriam, quod de animarum utilitate et suorum subditorum non attendunt seuissimis mundi procellis, videlicet superbie, cupiditatis et immundicie, se voluntarie inuoluendo,
quorum actus miseria imitatur communitas credens se per illam viam tenere rectam et sic ipsi se una cum subditis perimunt sequendo sue voluntatis quemlibet appetitum.
Per portum vero intelligo introitum veritatis, qui nunc coram multis sic obscuratus est, quod dum aliquis dixerit viam ad portum celestis patrie, qui est sacratissimum Christi euangelium, tunc ipsum mentiri dicunt eorum opera magis sequentes, qui peccatis quibuslibet se ingerunt, quam illorum verbis credentes, qui euangelicam predicant veritatem.
Per lucem vero, quam amici Dei petebant, intelligo aliquam diuinam reuelationem fieri in mundo ad hoc, ut caritas Dei renouari valeat in cordibus hominum et eius iusticia non obliuisci nec negligi.
Et ideo placuit Deo propter misericordiam suam et suorum amicorum petitionem vocare te in spiritum sanctum ad videndum, audiendum et intelligendum spiritualiter ad hoc ut ea, que audieris in spiritu, debeas alijs reuelare secundum Dei voluntatem."
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