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this the Evangelist followed the express commands of the
most holy Mary. Secondly, the proud rebellion of Lucifer,
although in general opposing the supreme will and orders
of the Most High and omnipotent God, was especially
directed against Christ our Lord and his Mother, to
whose superiority and excellence the apostate angels do
not wish to subject themselves. Also the first rebellion
and war waged with saint Michael in heaven was in
protest against their authority; but at that time they
could not war with the incarnate Word and with his
Virgin Mother in person, but only against the mysterious
sign or representation of that mysterious Woman, which
they saw placed in the heavens as a prophetic symbol
of all the mysteries of the Incarnation to be enacted in
her womb. When the time came for the execution of
all these sacraments and for the Incarnation of the Word
in her womb, it was proper that this battle of the demons
should be renewed and that Christ and Mary should
triumph over them in person. For this the Lord, as
well in heaven as afterwards in paradise, had threatened
them with this enmity between the Woman and the ser
pent, and between the seed of the Woman and the serpent,
in order that She might crush his head.
507. All this was fulfilled to the letter in Christ and
in Mary; for of our great Highpriest and Savior saint
Paul says, that He was tempted in all things like we
ourselves and for our example, but without sin ;
and the
same can be said of the most holy Mary. Lucifer had
permission to tempt Them after his fall from heaven,
as I have said in the tenth chapter of the first Part.
And because this battle with the most holy Mary was
to be a counterpart of the first one in heaven and was
to be for the demons the fulfillment of the threat and
menace contained in her image,
it was described and
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