These words were said full tenderly, showing no manner of blame to me nor to any that shall be saved. And for the tender love that our good Lord hath to all that shall be saved, He comforteth readily and sweetly, signifying thus: It is sooth that sin is cause of all this pain but all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner thing shall be well. For the Passion of our Lord is comfort to us against all this, and so is His blessed will. All this was shewed in a touch and quickly passed over into comfort: for our good Lord would not that the soul were affeared of this terrible sight.īut I saw not sin: for I believe it hath no manner of substance nor no part of being, nor could it be known but by the pain it is cause of.Īnd thus pain, it is something, as to my sight, for a time for it purgeth, and maketh us to know ourselves and to ask mercy.

In this naked word sin, our Lord brought to my mind, generally, all that is not good, and the shameful despite and the utter noughting that He bare for us in this life, and His dying and all the pains and passions of all His creatures, ghostly and bodily (for we be all partly noughted, and we shall be noughted following our Master, Jesus, till we be full purged, that is to say, till we be fully noughted of our deadly flesh and of all our inward affections which are not very good ) and the beholding of this, with all pains that ever were or ever shall be,-and with all these I understand the Passion of Christ for most pain, and overpassing. much to be forsaken, but nevertheless mourning and sorrow I made therefor, without reason and discretion.īut Jesus, who in this Vision informed me of all that is needful to me, answered by this word and said: It behoved that there should be sin but all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well. And so I looked, generally, upon us all, and methought: If sin had not been, we should all have been clean and like to our Lord, as He made us.Īnd thus, in my folly, afore this time often I wondered why by the great foreseeing wisdom of God the beginning of sin was not letted: for then, methought, all should have been well. And I saw that nothing letted me but sin.

'Often I wondered why by the great foreseeing wisdom of God the beginning of sin was not hindered: for then, methought, all should have been well.' 'Sin is behovable- but all shall be well'ĪFTER this the Lord brought to my mind the longing that I had to Him afore.

Julian revelations of divine love