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14 Nov 2022

Separation Here And There

Ne simul perdas cum impiis animam meam, et cum viris sanguinum vitam meam.

Juste roget ne cum impiis anima ejus pereat in futuro judicio, cum quibus hic communem non habuit actionem. Mertio enim ab eis ibi se sequestrari petiit, a quibus hic se ipse divisit. Sanguinum enim viri sunt, qui carnaliter vivunt, et nulla jussa coelestia concupiscunt. Pereunt ergo tales de futura Jersulaem, qui pro sua impietate damnandi sunt.

Cassiodorus, Expositio In Psalterium, Psalmus XXV

Source: Migne PL 70.185c-d
Do not destroy my soul at the same time with the impious, my life with men of blood. 1

Justly he pleads that his soul not perish with the impious in future judgment, with whom he has no deed in common here. For rightly he seeks to separate himself from them there, from whom he has separated himself here. For the men of blood are those who live carnally, and wish for no command of heaven. Such perish from the future Jerusalem, they who are damned by their own impiety.

Cassiodorus, Commentary On The Psalms, Psalm 25

1 Ps 25.9

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