2. Disconnected parables, visions, and prophecies. With regard to one
of these visions Matilda remarks, "That this so happened is not to
be understood literally, but spiritually; it was that which the soul
saw, and recognised, and rejoiced in. The words sound human, but the
natural mind can but partly receive that which the higher sense of
the soul perceives of spiritual things."
Commendations of the preaching friars of the order of S. Dominic.
References to passing events and contemporary persons, or persons
lately departed.
3. Refers chiefly to ecclesiastical matters. Contains prophecies of
the last days, of the Antichrist, of the return of Enoch and Elijah.
In these prophecies occur passages reproduced in the _Divine
Commedia_.