'This is the way I am dealt with by the priests who are
my betrayers. . . They put on a happy and pleasant face for me and lead
me to a hidden place where they can betray me. . . Their sentence is
condemnation. David condemned those who were disobedient to God, not out
of anger or bad will or impatience, but out of divine justice, because
he was a righteous prophet and king. I, too, who am greater than David,
condemn these priests, not out of anger or bad will but out of justice.
Accursed be everything they take from the earth for their own profit,
for they do not praise their God and Creator who gave them these things.
Accursed be the food and drink that enters their mouths and fattens
their bodies to become food for worms and destines their souls for Hell.
Accursed be their bodies that will rise again in Hell to be burned
without end. Accursed be the years of their useless lives. Accursed be
their first hour in Hell that never will end. Accursed be their eyes
that saw the light of heaven. Accursed be their ears that heard my words
and remained indifferent. Accursed be their sense of taste by which
they tasted my gifts. Accursed be their sense of touch by which they
handled me. Accursed be their sense of smell by which they smelled
delightful things and neglected me, the most delightful of all. May they
be accursed by earth and sky and every brute creature. These obey and
glorify God, whereas they have shunned him. Therefore, I swear by the
truth, I who am the Truth that if they die like this with such a
disposition, neither my love nor my virtue will ever encompass them.
Instead, they will be forever damned.'
