Verba Matris ad filiam, qualiter precibus Dei seruorum vult diligere quendam puerum et ipsum armis spiritualibus armare.
The Chosen Youth
The Mother of God reveals her intent to nurture and spiritually arm a chosen youth for the service of the King of heaven.
Remember what is written about Moses: the king's daughter found him in the water and loved him as her own son. It's also written in the scholastic histories that this same Moses conquered the land by using birds to consume poisonous snakes.1 I am the daughter of the King, of the lineage of David, and I want to love this boy whom I found in the storms of tears shed for the salvation of his soul—which was enclosed within the ark of his body—and whom those I have spoken of will raise until he reaches the age when I wish to arm him and send him out to conquer the earth for the King of heaven. But how these things will happen is unknown to you, though it is known to me. For I will prepare him in such a way that it will be said of him: 'He lived like a man, and he died like a giant.' He comes to judgment like a good soldier.'
Judgment and the Path of the World
The Son of God contrasts his patience with the prince of this world against the coming judgment upon those who reject divine grace.
The Son of God says: "When a hungry animal is driven away from its prey, it waits from a distance, looking for the right moment to return to it." But if it can't, it goes back to its den. That is how I dealt with the prince of this world. I have warned him with my blessings, I have warned him with words and with blows, but the more gently I show myself to him, the more ungrateful and forgetful he becomes. Therefore, I will now call him under the crown and to the footstool of my feet, because he refused to stand in the crown. I will send against him and his flatterers a cruel asp, born of a viper and a cunning fox, who will trouble the earth and its inhabitants, strip the simple bare, climb to the heights of the world, and cast down and trample those who boast.
The True Soldier of God
The Lord distinguishes between the false glory of worldly pride and the true glory of the soldier who serves God with humility and endurance.
As for this boy, whom my friends have raised, I'll lead him along a different path until he arrives at a more glorious place. The Son of God continues: "It will be said of this boy that he lived like a man, fought like an outstanding soldier, and will be crowned like a friend of God." Oh, daughter, what are those women thinking who take pride in the fact that their sons are growing in pride? That isn't glory, but confusion, because they are imitating the king of pride. But that is glory, and that is the soldier of glory who takes pride in honoring God as much as he can, strives for greater things, and is prepared to endure whatever the Lord wants him to endure. Such is a soldier of God, and such a one will be crowned with the soldiers of heaven."
Read the original Latin
"Recordare quod scribitur de Moyse, quod filia regis inuenit eum super aquas et dilexit eum pro filio suo. Scribitur quoque in scolasticis historiis, quod idem Moyses vicit terram per aues, que consumpserunt serpentes venenosos.
Ego sum filia regis de progenie Dauid, que volo puerum istum diligere, quem inueni in procellis lacrimarum, que effuse sunt propter salutem anime eius; que inclusa fuit in arca corporis eius, quem educabunt illi de quibus dixi, donec ad etatem venerit, in qua armare eum volo et mittere ad terram vincendam regi celi.
Sed quomodo hec fient, tibi ignotum est et michi notum. Nam ego taliter preparabo eum, quod de eo dicetur: 'Iste vixit sicut vir et mortuus est sicut gygas. Venit ad iudicium sicut bonus miles.'"
Filius Dei loquitur: "Vbi animal famelicum repellitur a preda, expectat a longe inueniendo tempus redeundi ad predam. Sin autem, vadit ad speluncam suam. Sic ego feceram principi terre huius.
Monui enim eum beneficiis meis, monui eum verbis et verberibus, sed tanto ingracior et obliuiosior est, quanto mansueciorem me ei ostendo. Ideo vocabo eum nunc sub coronam et ad scabellum pedum, quia noluit stare in corona.
Immittamque ei et assentatoribus eius aspidem immitem de vippera et subdola vulpe generatum, qui terram et habitatores eius conturbet et simplices deplumabit, qui cacumina terrarum ascendet et gloriantes deiciet et conculcet.
Puerum vero istum, quem amici mei nutrierunt, ducam per viam aliam, donec venerit ad locum gloriosiorem."
Item loquitur Filius Dei: "Adhuc dicetur de puero isto, quod vixit sicut vir, pugnauit sicut miles egregius, coronabitur sicut amicus Dei. O, filia, quid credunt mulieres, que gloriantur ex eo, quod filii earum procedunt in superbia? Illa non est gloria sed confusio, quia regem superbie imitantur.
Sed illa est gloria et ille est miles glorie, qui gloriatur ex eo, quod facit honorem Deo, quantum potest, et conatur ad maiora paratusque est pati ea que Dominus vult eum pati. Talis est miles Dei et talis coronabitur cum militibus celi."
Notes
- 1 ↩The reference to 'scolasticis historiis' likely points to medieval legendary accounts (such as those found in Peter Comestor's Historia Scholastica) regarding Moses's military campaigns in Ethiopia.
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