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On Sin and Virtue |
Excerpted from Legatus divinae pietatis |
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And on another night, when she was overly weakened through manifold consolation of the presence of the Lord and the exertion of the spiritual intellect, accepting the grapes she restored herself with the intention that she would restore the Lord himself within her. Quod Dominus magnifice acceptans, ait ad eam: "Modo fateor mihi recompensatam amaritudinem illam, quam de spongia in cruce pro amore tuo bibi, quoniam pro ipsa iam de corde tuo inedicibilem dulcedinem sugo. Et quanto tu purius ad laudem meam corpus tuum recreaveris, eo suavius ego me profiteor in anima tua refectum." Hinc cum ista pelliculas et acinas uvarum in manu congregatas in medium domus proiiceret, affuit et Satan omnis boni persecutor, qui hoc quod ista abiecerat recolligere conabatur, quasi ad testificandum culpam infirmae qua ante matutinum contra Religionem comedisset. Cumque unam de eisdem pelliculis velut duobius digitis vix attingisset, illico intolerabilis cruciatus ardore combustus, terribiles emittendo latratus de domo concitus prosilivit, diligentissime observare studens ne aliquam ultra pede ontingeret, ex cuius tactu cruciatum persenserat tam intolerabilis poenae." |