2738. Those bonds do not appear to spirits nor to earthly humans as bonds, but as liberties, for they do not feel that they are being thus withheld. In fact the bonds appear to them so flexible that when they were loosed and they realized then that they would rush into all evil, they begged that they should not be loosed. So spirits shrink away from the loosing of their bonds.
2738. These bonds do not appear as bonds to spirits, nor likewise to man, but as liberties; for they do not perceive that they are thus held back: yea so free do the bonds appear to them, that when they are remitted to them, and they have hence perceived that they would rush into all evil, they have asked that they should not be remitted: thus do spirits abhor the remission of bonds.
2738. Vincula illa non apparent spiritibus, sicut nec homini, ut vincula, sed ut libertates, nam non percipiunt quod detineantur ita, imo tam libera iis apparent, ut dum iis remissa sint vincula, et perceperint inde quod ruerent 1
in omne malum, quod petiverint, ut non remitterentur, sic abhorrent spiritus remissionem vinculorum.
Footnotes:
1. imperfectum in the Manuscript