For, as to my sight, it is a worshipful property of God’s that is ever the same.Īnd after this I fell into a graveness, and said: I see three things: I see game, scorn, and earnest. And when I saw Him scorn his malice, it was by leading of mine understanding into our Lord: that is to say, it was an inward shewing of verity, without changing of look. For I understood that we may laugh in comforting of ourselves and joying in God for that the devil is overcome. I thought that I would that all mine even-Christians had seen as I saw, and then would they all laugh with me.
For this sight I laughed mightily, and that made them to laugh that were about me, and their laughing was a pleasure to me. Also I saw our Lord scorn his malice and set at nought his unmight and He willeth that we do so. With might and right He withstandeth the Reproved, the which of malice and wickedness busy them to contrive and to do against God’s will. And he hath as much sorrow when God giveth him leave to work, as when he worketh not: and that is for that he may never do as ill as he would: for his might is all taken into God’s hand.īut in God there may be no wrath, as to my sight: for our good Lord endlessly hath regard to His own worship and to the profit of all that shall be saved. And that is his sorrow, and full evil is he ashamed: for all that God suffereth him to do turneth us to joy and him to shame and woe. And as sore he travaileth, and as continually he seeth that all souls of salvation escape him, worshipfully, by the virtue of Christ’s precious Passion. God shewed that the Fiend hath now the same malice that he had afore the Incarnation. On this shewed our Lord that the Passion of Him is the overcoming of the Fiend. These words said our Lord, meaning His blessed Passion as He shewed it afore. Then He, without voice and opening of lips, formed in my soul these words: Herewith is the Fiend overcome. “The Enemy is overcome by the blessed Passion and Death of our Lord Jesus Christ”ĪND after this, ere God shewed any words, He suffered me for a convenient time to give heed unto Him and all that I had seen, and all intellect that was therein, as the simplicity of the soul might take it.
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