Christus dicit sponse de regina supra proximo dicta, quod illa reputat graue dictum consilium dei. Ideo annunciat ei, quod, nisi obedierit cito, vita eius erit breuis, racio reddenda in iudicio grauis et finis dolorosus.
The Burden of Divine Counsel
Christ reveals that the queen finds His divine counsel to be an unbearable burden.
Christ spoke to the bride about the queen mentioned earlier, saying: "That queen I told you about sought counsel from me through you, but now that she has heard my advice, she finds it extremely burdensome."
The Warning of History
Christ recalls the example of a past queen who chose comfort over truth, leading to her eventual ruin.
So, tell her now that there was a certain queen in the time of the prophet Elijah who loved her own comfort more than me, persecuted the words of truth, and believed she could stand firm through her own cleverness.1 And so it happened that she was not only held in contempt and despised by everyone, just as she had previously been honored, but she was also troubled in her death.
A Call to Urgent Obedience
Christ warns the queen that her time is limited and her judgment severe unless she chooses to obey.
And because I am God, who sees and knows the future more clearly, I tell this queen now that her time is short, the account she must render on the day of judgment is heavy, and her end will not be like her beginning, unless she obeys my words.
Read the original Latin
Christus loquebatur ad sponsam de regina supra proxima dicta dicens: Regina illa, de qua prius dixeram tibi, consilium quesiuit a me per te et audito consilio, quod dedi ei, videtur sibi grauissimum.
Et ideo modo dic ei, quod erat quedam regina tempore helye prophete, que dilexit quietem suam plus quam me, et persequebatur verba veritatis et credebat stare per prudenciam suam.
Ideo contigit, quod non solum contempta et despecta fuit ab omnibus sicut prius honorata, sed eciam in morte sua tribulata fuit.
Et propterea ego deus, qui clarius video et scio futura, dico nunc isti regine, quod tempus suum breue est, computus quem redditura est in die iudicii grauis est et finis suus non sicut principium erit, nisi obedierit verbis meis.
Notes
- 1 ↩The Latin 'helye prophete' refers to the prophet Elijah (1 Kings 17-19). The 'queen' mentioned is likely a reference to Jezebel, given the context of persecution and the prophet's time.
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