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[Chapter Two]
Those Who Do Not Do Penance
1All those men and women who are not living in penance, 2who do not receive the Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, 3who practice vice and sin and walk after the evil concupiscence and the evil desires of their flesh, 4who do not observe what they have promised to the Lord, 5and who in their body serve the world through the desires of the flesh, a the concerns of the world and the cares of this life: 6They are held captive by the devil, whose children they are, and whose works they do. 7They are blind because they do not see the true light, our Lord Jesus Christ. Jn 8:41 8They do not possess spiritual wisdom because they do not have the Son of God, the true wisdom of the Father. 9It is said of them: Their wisdom has been swallowed up Ps 107:27 [Vulgate, Ps 106:27] and Cursed are those who turn away from your commands. Ps 118:21 [Vulgate, Ps 117:21] 10They see and acknowledge, know and do evil, and knowingly lose their souls.
11See, you blind ones, deceived by your enemies: the flesh, b the world, and the devil, because it is sweet for the body to sin and it is bitter to serve God, 12for every vice and sin flow and proceed from the human heart Mt 15:19 as the Lord says in the Gospel. 13And you have nothing in this world or in that to come. 14And you think that you will possess this world’s vanities for a long time, but you are deceived because a day and an hour will come of which you give no thought, which you do not know, and of which you are unaware when the body becomes weak, death approaches, and it dies a bitter death. 15And no matter where, when, or how a person dies in the guilt of sin without penance and satisfaction, if he can perform an act of satisfaction and does not do so, the devil snatches his soul from its body with such anguish and distress that no one can know [what it is like] except the one receiving it.c
16And every talent, ability, knowledge, and wisdom 2Chr 1:12 they think they have will be taken away from them. Lk 8:18 17And they leave their wealth to their relatives and friends who take and divide it and afterwards say: “May his soul be cursed because he could have given us more and acquired more than what he distributed to us.” 18Worms eat his body and so body and ...
- The term "bodily" (corporaliter) should not be understood in the narrow sense of "physically." Rather, it signifies in a fuller sense "completely or actually with body and soul" serve the world.
- It is significant that Francis places the flesh in the first place among the three enemies of the soul.
- While Francis does not generally distinguish clearly between suus and eius, in this case he does. The phrase, rapit animam suam de corpore eius, denotes that the devil snatches or takes what is his own. The soul submerged in sin, by definition, belongs to the devil. Thus, the soul, which because of sin already belongs to the devil, is taken by the devil from the body of the sinner.
Epistola ad fideles (Recensio prior), Fontes Franciscani, p. 74-75
[Caput II]
De illis qui non agunt poenitentiam.
1Omnes autem illi et illae, qui non sunt in poenitentia, 2et non recipiunt corpus et sanguinem Domini nostri Jesu Christi, 3et operantur vitia et peccata et qui ambulant post malam concupiscentiam et mala desideria carnis suae, 4et non observant, quae promiserunt Domino, 5et serviunt corporaliter mundo carnalibus desideriis et sollicitudinibus saeculi et curis huius vitae: 6detenti a diabolo, cuius sunt filii et eius opera faciunt, 7caeci sunt, quia verum lumen non vident Dominum nostrum Jesum Christum. 8Sapientiam non habent spiritualem, quia non habent Filium Dei qui est vera sapientia Patris, 9de quibus dicitur: Sapientia eorum deglutita est; et: Maledicti qui declinant a mandatis tuis. 10Vident et agnoscunt, sciunt et faciunt mala et ipsi scienter perdunt animas.
Videte, caeci, decepti ab inimicis vestris: 11a carne, mundo et diabolo; quia corpori dulce est facere peccatum et amarum est facere servire Deo; 12quia omnia vitia et peccata de corde hominum exeunt et procedunt d, sicut dicit Dominus in Evangelio. 13Et nihil habetis in hoc saeculo neque in futuro. 14Et putatis diu possidere vanitates huius saeculi, sed decepti estis, quia veniet dies et hora, de quibus non cogitatis, nescitis et ignoratis; infirmatur corpus, mors appropinquat et sic moritur amara morte. 15Et ubicumque, quandocumque, qualitercumque moritur homo in criminali peccato sine poenitentia et satisfactione, si potest satisfacere et non satisfacit, diabolus rapit animam suam de corpore eius cum tanta angustia et tribulatione, quod nemo potest scire, nisi qui recipit.
16Et omnia talenta et potestas et scientia et sapientia, quae putabant habere, auferetur ab eis (*). 17Et propinquis et amicis relinquunt et ipsi tulerunt et diviserunt substantiam eius et dixerunt postea: Maledicta sit anima sua, quia potuit plus dare nobis et acquirere quam non acquisivit. 18Corpus comedunt vermes, et ita perdiderunt corpus et animam in isto brevi saeculo et ibunt in inferno, ubi cruciabuntur sine fine.