This kind of fruit is most pleasing to me. In this way, from a small beginning one rises up to perfection. As the seed takes root at first through a little piety, the body grows through abstinence, the branches are multiplied through charity, the fruit grows fat through preaching. In the same manner, a person sinks down from a small evil to the greatest condemnation and punishment. Do you know what the heaviest burden is for growing things? Surely it is the burden of an infant who is about to be born but cannot be delivered and dies inside the womb of the mother, and the mother also ruptures and dies from it, and the father carries her off to the tomb along with the child and buries her with the rotting matter. This is what the devil does to the soul.
The immoral soul is like the wife of the devil and follows his will in everything. She conceives a child by the devil by taking pleasure in sin and rejoicing in it. Just as a mother conceives and bears fruit through a little seed that is nothing but rot, so too, by delighting in sin, the soul bears much fruit for the devil. Thereafter the strength and limbs of the body get formed as sin gets added to sin and increases daily. The mother swells up through the increase of sin. She wants to give birth, but she cannot, for her nature is consumed with sin, and life becomes wearisome. She would prefer to go on sinning, but she cannot, and God does not allow it.
Fear is then present because she cannot carry out her will. Strength and joy are gone. Worry and sorrow are everywhere. Then her womb ruptures as she despairs of being able to do good. And she dies while blaspheming and blaming God's justice. And so she is led by the father, the devil, down to the tomb of hell where she is buried forever with the rot of her sin and the child of her depraved pleasure. So you see, from small beginnings sin increases and grows unto damnation."
The Son's words to the bride about how people rise up from a small good to the perfect good and sink down from a small evil to the greatest punishment.
SAINT BRIDGET PATRON SAINT OF EUROPE BOOK 1 Chapter 43 PART II
Interesting.
Kdormi20 6 months ago