"He who comes to me will never go hungry,
and he who believes in me will never be thirsty." John 6:35
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Content Book 2
The Son's instruction to the bride about the devil;
the Son's answer to the bride about
why he does not remove evildoers before they fall into sin;
and about how the kingdom of heaven is given
to baptized persons who die before
reaching the age of discretion.
The Son's indictment of a certain soul
who was to be condemned in the presence of the bride,
and Christ's answer to the devil about
why he permitted this soul and permits other evildoers
to touch and take or receive his own true body.
Words of amazement from the Mother of God to the bride,
and about five houses in the world whose inhabitants
represent five states of people, namely unfaithful Christians,
obstinate Jews and pagans separately,
Jews and Pagans together, and the friends of God.
This chapter contains many useful remarks.
The words of the Mother of God to her Son
on behalf of his bride, and about how Christ
is compared to Salomon, and about the severe sentence
against false Christians.
The Lord' s words in the presence of the bride
concerning his own majesty, and a wonderful parable
comparing Christ to David, while Jews, bad Christians,
and pagans are compared to David's three sons,
and about how the church subsists
in the seven sacraments.
The Son's words in the presence of the bride
concerning a king standing on a battlefield
with friends to his right and enemies to his left,
and about how the king represents Christ
who has Christians to the right and pagans to the left,
and about how the Christians are rejected
and he sends his preachers to the pagans.
Jesus Christ speaks to the bride and compares
his divine nature to a crown and uses Peter and Paul
to symbolize the clerical and the lay state,
and about the ways of dealing with enemies,
and about the qualities that knights
in the world should have.
Christ's words to the bride about a certain knight's
desertion from the true army, that is,
from humility, obedience, patience, faith, etc.,
to the false one, that is, to the opposing vices, pride, etc.,
and the description of his condemnation,
and about how one can meet with condemnation
because of an evil will just as much
as because of evil deeds.
Christ's words to the bride giving an explanation
of the immediately preceding chapter,
and about the devil's attack on the aforementioned knight,
and about his terrible and just condemnation.
As God spoke to Moses from the burning bush,
Christ speaks to the bride about how the devil is
symbolized by Pharaoh, present-day knights
by the people of Israel, and the Virgin's body by the bush,
and about how present-day knights and bishops are,
at present, preparing a home for the devil.
Christ's delightful words to the bride
about the glory and honor of the good and true knight,
and about how the angels come out to meet him,
and about how the glorious Trinity welcomes him
affectionately and takes him to a place of indescribable rest
as a reward for but a little struggle.
Christ's words to the bride
about the unchanging nature and eternal duration of his justice,
and about how, after taking a human nature,
he revealed his justice through his love in a new light,
and about how he tenderly exercises mercy toward
the damned and gently teaches his knights mercy.
Christ's strong words to the bride
against present-day knights, and about the proper way
of creating knights, and about how God gives and bestows
strength and help to them in their actions.
About Christ as symbolized by a goldsmith
and the words of God as gold,
and about how these words should be transmitted
to people with the love of God, an upright conscience,
and their five senses under control,
and about how the preachers of God should be
diligent rather than lazy in selling the gold,
that is, in transmitting the word of God.
Christ's words to the bride about how
the way to paradise was opened by his coming,
and about the ardent love he showed us in bearing
so many sufferings for us from his birth to his death,
and about how the way to hell has now been
made wide and the way to paradise narrow.
Christ's words to the bride about why he speaks
with her rather than with others better than she,
and about three things commanded, three forbidden,
three permitted, and three recommended to the bride by Christ;
a most excellent lesson.
Christ's words to the bride about how God's divinity
can truly be named virtue, and about the manifold downfall
of humankind instigated by the devil, and about the manifold remedy
to aid humankind that was given
and provided for through Christ.
About three wonderful things that Christ
has done for the bride, and about how the sight of angels
is too beautiful and that of devils too ugly
for human nature to bear, and about why Christ has condescended
to come as a guest to a widow like her.
Christ's words to the bride about how God
speaks to his friends through his preachers
and through sufferings, and about Christ as symbolized
by an owner of bees and the church by a beehive
and Christians by bees, and about why bad Christians
are allowed to live among good ones.
God's grievance concerning three men now
going around in the world, and about how from the start
God established three estates, namely those of the clergy,
the defenders, and the laborers; and about the punishment
prepared for the thankless and about the glory
given to the thankful.
The words of the glorious Virgin to her daughter
about how Christ was taken down from the cross
and about her own bitterness and sweetness
at the passion of her Son, and about how the soul is
symbolized by a virgin and the love of the world
and the love of God by two youths,
and about the qualities the soul should have as a virgin.
The glorious Virgin's doctrinal teaching
to her daughter about spiritual and temporal wisdom
and about which of them one ought to imitate,
and about how spiritual wisdom leads a person
to everlasting consolation, after a little struggle,
while temporal wisdom leads to eternal damnation.
The glorious Virgin's words explaining her
humility to her daughter, and about how humility
is likened to a cloak, and about the characteristics
of true humility and its wonderful fruits.
The Virgin's exhortation to her daughter,
complaining about how few her friends are;
and about how Christ speaks to the bride
and describes his sacred words as flowers
and explains who the people are in whom
such words are to bear fruit.
Christ's advice to the bride about the provisions
in the three houses, and about how bread
stands for a good will, drink for holy forethought,
and meats for divine wisdom, and about how there is
no divine wisdom in erudition but only
in the heart and in a good life.
The Virgin's advice to her daughter about life,
and Christ's words to the bride about the clothes
that should be kept in the second house,
and about how these clothes denote the peace of God
and the peace of one's neighbor and works of mercy
and pure abstinence, and an excellent explanation
of all these things.
Christ's words to the bride about the instruments
in the third house, and about how such instruments
symbolize good thoughts, disciplined senses,
and true confession; there is also given an excellent explanation
of all these things in general and about
the locks of these houses.
Christ's words to the bride about his unchanging nature
and about how his words are accomplished,
even if they are not immediately followed by deeds;
and about how our will should be
wholly entrusted to God's will.
John the Baptist admonishes the bride
through a parable in which God is symbolized
by a magpie, the soul by its chicks,
the body by its nest, worldly pleasures by wild animals,
pride by birds of prey, worldly mirth by a snare.
The Mother's entreaty to her Son for his bride
and for another holy person,
and about how the Mother's entreaty is received by Christ,
and about certainty regarding the truth or falsity
of a person's holiness in this life.