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and Antichrist.

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and Antichrist.

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In voluptuousness lives this one and lavishness.

Antichrist.

It often happens that the bishops are burdened with many affairs, and because of their feuds, even at times they cannot, *) which should not be, wait for preaching, especially if their bishoprics are large, then they may appoint others to preach for them. c. Inter caetera de off. ordin. (II, 155.) These are the bishops who, forgetting their ordinary office, have become animalia ventris, and say: Come, and let us feast and temmen, and so have life for and for good. Isa. 56, 12.

*) In Latin: propter defectum scientiae - because of lack of knowledge.