[Sermones "Dormi secure" de tempore]

due to manifest sins. 7 assimilatus you have been assimilated/likened You are likened to a dragon due to hidden sins. Whence Gregory says: A lion rages openly, a dragon lies in wait secretly. I will spread my net in eternal judgment, and I will drag you from the sea of this world, and I will irrigate the earth with the stench of your sins. And when you have been extinguished, that is, expelled from my face, neither the sun of nature nor the sun of divinity will give you its light anymore. Therefore, regarding the theme: There will be four signs: of salutation, of incarnation, of redemption, and of eternal damnation.

The Third Sunday.

The Third Sermon

When John had heard in bonds original: "in vinculis" the works of Christ, sending two disciples. Matthew 11 We see that when a man is in bonds and in a dark place, then he cannot be happy. According to that of the Psalmist: They have placed me in the lower pit, in darkness, and in the shadow of death. Then that man’s desire is to be absolved from this bond and to come to the light. Such was John the Baptist, who was bound by a quadruple bond, from which he desired to be absolved. For he was in the bonds of his own body, where the soul sat in a prison. Whence the Apostle says: Who shall deliver me from the prison of this body of death? Secondly, in the bonds of this world. Thirdly, he was in the bonds of the desert, where he punished his own body as if in bonds, so that he might not stain his holy life. Fourthly, he was in the bonds of Herod,

therefore he sent two disciples from among his disciples to Christ, that they might question him, whether John ought to announce Christ’s advent to the limbus the place where the souls of the holy patriarchs awaited the Resurrection for the holy fathers, just as he announced the advent of Christ into the world. And concerning this, he speaks in this gospel. For John left the desert and preached repentance to sinners, and he rebuked Herod, saying: It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife; do penance. Because of this, he placed him in prison, and John had some disciples who followed him because of the holiness of his life and his teaching, as is evident in the gospel.

In that time when John had heard in bonds the works of Christ: sending two of his disciples that they might say: Are you he who is to come, or do we look for another? as if he were saying: Ought I to tell those who are in the limbus of your advent, because I must die in prison for the truth? And Jesus answering said to them: Go, report to John what you have heard and seen. The blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the dead rise again, the poor have the gospel preached to them, that is, sinners are converted and they preach the holy gospel. And Jesus said: Blessed is he who shall not be scandalized in me, that is, who does not retreat from the faith, but will remain until the end. And then, when they were departing, Jesus began to say to the crowds concerning John: What