Dubitante quodam religioso incredulo et disputante de ista gracia videndi celestia sponse diuinitus gratis data Christus reprehendit eum per sponsam de loquacitate et sciencia sua vana, et corripit eum cum infirmitate paralisis.
The Skeptic's Challenge
A religious man questions the validity of the Bride's visions, rejecting the possibility of divine revelation to her.
When Master Matthias was speaking with a certain religious man of great authority and familiarity about this grace of heavenly visions divinely given to the Bride, that religious man replied: "It's not believable, nor does it align with Scripture, that God would turn away from those who are continent and have renounced the world, only to reveal His secrets to grand women." But when the master brought forward many arguments about this, he didn't agree.
The Divine Diagnosis
The Bride prays for guidance, and Christ responds by rebuking the man's intellectual pride and vanity.
When the bride heard these things and saw that the master was troubled, she turned to prayer. And then, caught up in the Spirit, she heard Christ saying this: Many suffer from such a dangerous sickness that they are made ill by the very antidote meant to heal them. That is why it shouldn't be given to them, lest they become even sicker. I, however, am the medicine for the sick and the truth for those who wander, but this talkative religious man does not desire the medicine, because his heart is filled with the dung of vain knowledge.✦
The Correction of Pride
Christ declares that He will humble the man through physical affliction, which subsequently comes to pass.
Therefore, I will strike him with my own hand, and everyone will hear that I am a God who isn't just talk, but who is effective and to be feared. This same religious man was later humbled by this trial, and he died paralyzed.
Read the original Latin
Magistro Mathia loquente cum quodam religioso magne auctoritatis et familiaritatis de ista gracia visionum celestium diuinitus data sponse respondit ille religiosus:
"Non est credibile nec concordat Scripture, quod Deus recesserit a continentibus et abdicantibus mundum et ostendat secreta sua magnificis feminis."
Magistro vero allegante plurima super hoc ille non consensit. Cum autem sponsa audisset ista et videns magistrum turbatum, posuit se ad oracionem. Et tunc rapta in spiritu audiuit Christum dicentem sic:
"Multorum est ita periculosa infirmitas, quod de antidoto infirmantur. Ideo non est eis dandum, ne grauius infirmentur.
Ego autem sum medicina infirmorum et veritas errancium, sed iste religiosus loquax non desiderat medicinam, quia stercus sciencie vanitatis est in corde eius.
Ideo dabo ei vnam alapam cum manu mea, et audietur ab omnibus, quod ego sum Deus non loquax sed efficax et metuendus." Hic idem religiosus post hec tribulacione humiliatus est et paraliticus mortuus est.
Scripture echoes
- ↩Phil.3.8 — But more than that—indeed, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have lost everything and consider it all rubbish, so that I may gain Christ.
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