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English: A passage from Ignatius's "Letter on Obedience", which describes an ideal "corpse-like obedience":
…quam cernere peccatum, ubi superior aliquid jubet. Quisque sibi persuedeat, ait regula, quod qui sub obedientia vivunt, se ferri, ac regi a divina providentia, per superiores suos sinere debent, perinde ac si CADAVER essent, quodque quoquo versus ferri, & quacumque ratione tractari se sinit; vel similiter atque SENIS BACULUS, qui ubicumque & quacumque in re velis eo uti, qui eum manu tenet, ei inservit. Si cadaver & baculus possint discernere ubi sit peccatum, ubi non, id poterit etiam qui obediturus est ex regula. Deinde noster Car…

which in English means

…than to discern sin, when a superior commands something. Let everyone convince himself (says the rule) that those who live under obedience must let themselves be carried and ruled through divine providence by their superiors, just as if they were a CORPSE, which allows itself to be carried in any direction, and handled in any way; or similarly like an OLD STICK, which serves whoever holds it in his hand, wherever and however he wants. If a corpse and a stick could discern where there is or is not sin, so could he who is going to obey because of the Rule. Then our Car…
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Source Operum theologicorum by Andrea Riveto, from the Angelica Library in Rome, via [1]
Author Ignatius of Loyola

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