Christus conqueritur sponse de gentilibus et Iudeis et permaxime de malis christianis ex eo, quod sancta sacramenta non recipiunt deuote et munde sicut decet, et ex eo, quod negligunt creacionem et redempcionem et diuinam consolacionem.
The Threefold Rejection of Christ
Christ contrasts the unbelief of pagans and Jews with the faithless indifference of Christians who ignore His divine words and works.
The Son says: "I am speaking to you through a comparison, as if there were three types of people." The first would say, 'I believe you are neither God nor man'; this person is a pagan. The second, the Jew, believes that I am God but not man. The third, the Christian, believes that I am both God and man, but doesn't believe my words. I am the one about whom the Father's voice was heard: 'This is my Son,' and so on. That is why I complain, on behalf of my divinity, that people refuse to listen to me. I cried out, 'I am the beginning; if you believe in me, you'll have eternal life,' but they treated it with contempt. They saw the power of my divinity when I raised the dead and did many other things, yet they paid no attention.
The Neglect of Holy Sacraments
Christ laments the corruption and lack of reverence shown toward the seven sacraments He established for the purification of the Church.
I also complain from the perspective of my humanity, because no one cares about the things I established in the holy Church. For I have placed in the Church seven vessels, as it were, through which everyone might be purified. For I established baptism for the cleansing of original sin, chrism as a sign of divine reconciliation, holy oil for strength against death, penance for the remission of all sins, holy words by which the Sacraments are sanctified and instituted, the priesthood for the dignity, recognition, and remembrance of divine love, and marriage for the union of hearts. These things should be received with humility, kept with purity, and dispensed without greed; yet now they are taken with pride, guarded in unclean vessels, and dispensed with greed.
The Sorrow of the Redeemer
Christ expresses deep grief over humanity's ingratitude for His redemptive sacrifice and their rejection of His divine consolation.
I also lament that I was born and died for the salvation of humanity, so that if people wouldn't love me because I created them, they might at least love me because I redeemed them. But now, people cast me out of their hearts as if I were a leper, and they loathe me like a filthy rag. From the perspective of my divinity, I also complain that people refuse the consolation of that same divinity and pay no attention to my love.
Read the original Latin
Filius loquitur: "Ego loquor tibi per similitudinem, quasi essent tres homines. Primus diceret: 'Ego nec credo te esse Deum nec hominem;' et hic talis est gentilis.
Secundus, id est Iudeus, credit me esse Deum sed non hominem. Tercius, id est Christianus, credit me esse Deum et hominem sed non credit verbis meis.
Ego sum ille super quem vox Patris audiebatur: 'Hic est Filius meus' et cetera. Ideo conqueror ex parte deitatis mee, quod homines nolunt me audire.
Ego clamabam et dixi: 'Ego sum principium: si creditis michi, habebitis vitam eternam;' sed contempserunt. Ipsi viderunt potenciam deitatis mee, quando suscitabam mortuos et multa alia et tamen non attenderunt.
Conqueror eciam ex parte humanitatis, quia ea que in sancta Ecclesia institui nullus curat. Ego quippe posui in Ecclesia quasi septem vasa, quibus omnes purificarentur.
Institui enim baptisma in purgacionem originalium peccatorum, crisma in signum diuine reconciliacionis, oleum sanctum in robur contra mortem, penitenciam in remissionem omnium peccatorum, verba sancta, quibus sacramenta sanctificarentur et instituerentur, sacerdocium in dignitatem et recognicionem et rememoracionem diuine caritatis, coniugium in cordium unionem.
Hec recipi debent cum humilitate, custodiri cum puritate, erogari sine cupiditate; sed iam suscipiuntur cum superbia, custodiuntur in vasis immundis, erogantur cum cupiditate.
Conqueror eciam, quod pro salute hominum natus et mortuus fui, ut, si homo nollet me diligere, quia creaui eum, saltem diligeret me, quia redemi. Sed nunc homines eiciunt me de corde suo quasi leprosum et abhominantur me quasi pannum immundum.
Conqueror eciam ex parte deitatis, quod consolacionem eiusdem deitatis homines nolunt et caritatem eius non attendunt."
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