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DLH IV.48a

  • Writer: Michaela Selway
    Michaela Selway
  • Jul 13, 2023
  • 1 min read

English, p.244

To this day one is still amazed and astonished at the disasters which befell these people. We can only contrast how their forefathers used to behave with how they themselves are behaving today. After the missionary preaching of the bishops, the earlier generations were converted from their pagan temples and turned towards the churches; now they are busy plundering those same churches. The older folk listened with all their heart to the Lord's bishops and had great reverence for them; nowadays they not only do not listen, but they persecute instead. Their forefathers endowed the monasteries and churches; the sons tear them to pieces and demolish them.


Deutsch, S.185

Noch jetzt staunen wir und sind voll Wunderns, warum solche Leiden über diese Menschen kommen mußten. Aber laßt uns nur einmal daran zurückdenken, was ihre Vorderen taten und was sie tun. Jene wandten sich nach der Predigt der Bischöfe von den Götzentempeln den Kirchen zu; diese berauben alltäglich die Kirchen. Jene verehrten von ganzem Herzen die Bischöfe des Herrn und hörten auf sie; diese hören nicht nur nicht auf sie, sondern verfolgen sie sogar. Jene machten die Klöster und Kirchen reich; diese zerstören und verwüsten sie.


Latin, p.266 (184)

Et adhuc obstupiscimus et admiramur, cur tantae super eos plagae inruerint. Sed recurramus ad illud quod parentes eorum egerunt et isti perpetrant. Illi post praedicationem sacerdotum de fanis ad ecclesias surrt conversi; isti cotidie de ecclesiis praedas detrahunt. Illi sacerdotes Domini ex toto corde venerati sunt et audierunt; isti non solum nonaudiunt, sed etiam persecuntur. Illi monasteria et ecclesias ditaverunt; isti eas diruunt ac subvertunt.


Notes:

*Fall/decline of Israel

- decline of israel

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