Chapter XIV.
Therefore, it is necessary for us to look more diligently at who offers, to whom they offer, what they offer, and for whom they offer, that which is the way, the truth, and the gate; concerning which gate the Holy Spirit says through the Prophet: This is the gate of the Lord, the righteous shall enter through it; and again: He shall not be confounded when he speaks to his enemies in the gate. But those who have not earned through the grace and help of God to be raised up from the gates of death, that is, from sins, will not come to this gate. Therefore, I proclaim with steadfast profession the torments of Him in whom I believe, and I am not ashamed of those things which the Redeemer of the world undertook for my salvation and triumphed over by His power. Though you, Jew and Gentile, may laugh at the fact that I place my hope in Him whom I profess to be crucified and dead, I nonetheless glory in these wounds through which I please my Redeemer, which you are ignorant of. For the word of the cross, as the Apostle says, is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to those who are being saved it is the power of God (I Cor. I, 24 et 25). Behold, I make mention of Pilate the judge, by whom he was judged, who will be the judge of the world. But what do the punishments of that blessed body, which were destroyed by his swift resurrection, bite at the dignity of my faith? For this is not the end of my faith and confession: instead, accept what follows. On the third day he rose from the dead, he ascended into heaven, he sits at the right hand of the Father, from there he will come to judge the living and the dead (Acts 10:42), that is, both the righteous and sinners, the Gentiles and the Jews, both souls and bodies. Have you seen our unwavering and blissful trust, which is placed in someone whom even death itself cannot hinder or resist?