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"By these and by other sins men fall into false
judgment, as I will explain to you below. They are
continually being scandalized by My works, which are
all just, and all performed in truth through love and
mercy.
"With this false judgment, and with the poison of
envy and pride, the works of My Son were slandered
and unjustly judged, and with lies did His enemies
say: 'This man works by virtue of Beelzebub.' Thus
wicked men, standing in self-love, impurity, pride,
and avarice, and founded in envy, and in perverse
rashness with impatience, are forever scandalized at
Me and at My servants, whom they judge to be
feignedly practicing the virtues, because their heart
is rotten, and, having spoiled their taste, good
things seem evil to them, and bad things, that is to
say disorderly living, seem good to them.
"Oh, how blind is the human generation in that it
considers not its own dignity! From being great you
have become small, from a ruler you have become a
slave, and that in the vilest service that can be
had, because you are the servant and slave of sin,
and are become like unto that which you do serve.
"Sin is nothing. You, then, have become nothing; it
has deprived you of life, and given you death. This
life and power were given you by the Word, My
only-begotten Son, the glorious Bridge, He drawing
you from out of your servitude when you were servants
of the devil, Himself becoming as a servant to take
you out of servitude, imposing on Himself obedience
to do away the disobedience of Adam, and humbling
Himself to the shameful death of the Cross to
confound pride.
"By His death He destroyed every vice, so that no one
could say that any vice remained that was not
punished and beaten out with pains, as I said to you
above, when I said that of His Body He had made an
anvil. All the remedies are ready to save men from
eternal death, and they despise the Blood, and have
trampled It under the feet of their disordinate
affection; and it is for this injustice and false
judgment that the world is reproved, and will be
reproved on the Last Day of Judgment.
"This was meant by My Truth when He said: 'I will
send the Paraclete, who will reprove the world of
injustice and false judgment.' And it was reproved
when I sent the Holy Spirit on the Apostles."
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