Hello,
Above the word scorpiones in Rev. 9:3; et de fumo putei exierunt locustae in terram, et data est illis potestas, sicut habent potestatem scorpiones terrae; there is a gloss saying i.e. rudes, and then there is a marginal gloss saying:
Rudes scorpioni comparat, quia sicut scorpio cauda percutit, sic haeretici percutiunt per temporalia quae debent post esse sicut cauda posterior pars in animali. Vel ideo scorpioni comparantur quia quando scorpio pungit non sentitur, postea paulatim venenum diffunditur, sic decepti ab haereticis non sentiunt, sed tandem perimuntur.
He compares rudes to the scorpion, because as the scorpion strikes with its tail, so do the heretics strike with temporal things which ought to be behind like the tail which is the posterior part in an animal. Or they are compared to the scorpion because, when a scorpion stings, you do not feel it, and the venom spreads afterwards little by little: in the same way, those who are deceived by the heretics do not feel it, but they are eventually destroyed.
I'm not sure at all what they mean by rudes. "Primitive/rude/ignorant people", "sticks", "wooden swords", "foils"... ? None of these makes a lot of sense to me.
Help, ideas?
Above the word scorpiones in Rev. 9:3; et de fumo putei exierunt locustae in terram, et data est illis potestas, sicut habent potestatem scorpiones terrae; there is a gloss saying i.e. rudes, and then there is a marginal gloss saying:
Rudes scorpioni comparat, quia sicut scorpio cauda percutit, sic haeretici percutiunt per temporalia quae debent post esse sicut cauda posterior pars in animali. Vel ideo scorpioni comparantur quia quando scorpio pungit non sentitur, postea paulatim venenum diffunditur, sic decepti ab haereticis non sentiunt, sed tandem perimuntur.
He compares rudes to the scorpion, because as the scorpion strikes with its tail, so do the heretics strike with temporal things which ought to be behind like the tail which is the posterior part in an animal. Or they are compared to the scorpion because, when a scorpion stings, you do not feel it, and the venom spreads afterwards little by little: in the same way, those who are deceived by the heretics do not feel it, but they are eventually destroyed.
I'm not sure at all what they mean by rudes. "Primitive/rude/ignorant people", "sticks", "wooden swords", "foils"... ? None of these makes a lot of sense to me.
Help, ideas?