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Ad Demetrianum [CSEL]
§ 7
Indignatur ecce Dominus et irascitur et quod ad eum non conuertamini comminatur: et tu miraris aut quereris in hac obstinatione et contemptu uestro, si rara desuper pluuia descendat, si terra situ pulueris squaleat, si uix ieiunas et pallidas herbas sterilis gleba producat, si uineam debilitet grando caedens, si oleam detruncet turbo subuertens, si fontem siccitas statuat, aerem pestilens aura corrumpat, hominem morbida ualitudo consumat, cum omnia ista peccatis prouocantibus ueniant et plus exacerbetur Deus quando nihil talia et tanta proficiant. fieri enim ista uel ad disciplinam contumacium uel ad poenam 123[P. 356] malorum, declarat in scripturis sanctis idem Deus dicens: sine causa percussi4 filios uestros, disciplinam non exceperunt5. et propheta deuotus ac dicatus Deo ad haec eadem respondit et dicit: uerberasti eos nec doluerunt: flagellasti eos nec uoluerunt accipere disciplinam. ecce inrogantur diuinitus plagae et nullus Dei metus est: ecce uerbera desuper et flagella non desunt et trepidatio nulla, nulla formido est. quid si non intercederet rebus humanis uel ista censura ? quanto adhuc maior in hominibus esset audacia facinorum inpunitate secura?
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Apparatus: 1 Ex. 20, 3. 2 Hier. 25, 6. 6 Agg. 1, 9 sq. 14 Amos 4, 7 sq. ↩
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An Address to Demetrianus
7.
Behold, the Lord is angry and wrathful, and threatens, because you turn not unto Him. And you wonder or complain in this your obstinacy and contempt, if the rain comes down with unusual scarcity; and the earth falls into neglect with dusty corruption; if the barren glebe hardly brings forth a few jejune and pallid blades of grass; if the destroying hail weakens the vines; if the overwhelming whirlwind roots out the olive; if drought stanches the fountain; a pestilent breeze corrupts the air; the weakness of disease wastes away man; although all these things come as the consequence of the sins that provoke them, and God is more deeply indignant when such and so great evils avail nothing! For that these things occur either for the discipline of the obstinate or for the punishment of the evil, the same God declares in the Holy Scriptures, saying, "In vain have I smitten your children; they have not received correction." 1 And the prophet devoted and dedicated to God answers to these words in the same strain, and says, "Thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; Thou hast scourged them, but they have refused to receive correction." 2 Lo, stripes are inflicted from God, and there is no fear of God. Lo, blows and scourgings from above are not wanting, and there is no trembling, no fear. What if even no such rebuke as that interfered in human affairs? How much greater still would be the audacity in men, if it were secure in the impunity of their crimes!