Words in which God explains the immediately preceding chapter, and about the sentence handed down against such people, and about how God for a while puts up with the wicked for the sake of the good.
BOOK 1 SAINT BRIDGET PATRON SAINT OF EUROPE Chapter 56 FINAL PART
The letter, that is, my words, has thus been written. May my friends work to make it reach my enemies wisely and discreetly, in the hope that they listen and repent. If, having heard my words, some should say: "Let us wait a little while, the time is not yet coming, it is not yet his time." then, by my divine nature, which cast out Adam from paradise and sent the ten plagues to Pharaoh, I swear that I will come to them sooner than they think. By my human nature, which I assumed without sin from the Virgin unto the salvation of men and in which I suffered affliction in my heart, experiencing pain in my body and death for the life of men, and in which I rose again and ascended and am seated at the right hand of the Father, true God and man in one person, I swear that I will carry out my words.
By my Spirit, which descended on the apostles on the day of Pentecost and so inflamed them that they spoke in the tongues of all peoples, I swear that, unless they mend their ways and return to me like weak servants, I will take vengeance on them in my wrath. Then they will grieve in body and soul. They will grieve that they came alive into the world and lived in the world. They will grieve that the pleasure they had was small and now is meaningless, but that their torture will be forever. Then they will realize what they now refuse to believe, namely, that my words were words of love. Then they will understand that I admonished them like a father, but that they did not want to listen to me. Truly, if they do not believe in the words of goodwill, they will have to believe in the deeds to come."
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