Justice
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10.Divine justice and its vindication
10a.Justice and mercy in God
See also: Love 9a · Sin 9b · Will 2a · Punishment 10a
The Book of PsalmsVol. 44
- p. 250–251Mercy and truth meet, righteousness and peace kiss; righteousness goes before God.read · scan
Saint Augustine, The Confessions of St. AugustineVol. 7
- p. 157–158Mercy set against justice in the plea for her forgiveness.read · scan
Dante Alighieri, PurgatoryVol. 20
- p. 272In heaven's court the sinner's tearful self-accusation blunts the edge of justice.read · scan
- p. 280The forbidden tree implies God's equal justice.read · scan
Dante Alighieri, ParadiseVol. 20
- p. 310The Cross was the most just penalty, since it punished the assumed nature, yet the greatest wrong to Christ.read · scan
- p. 310Mere release would be less than the Son's humbling; only His taking flesh fully satisfied justice.read · scan
Martin Luther, The Ninety-Five ThesesVol. 36
- p. 257–258Asks why souls are redeemed for money and not freely out of charity, since charity is the more just reason.read · scan
Robert Southwell, The Burning BabeVol. 40
- p. 218–219Justice lays on the fuel while Mercy blows the coals.read · scan
Christopher Marlowe, The Tragical History of Doctor FaustusVol. 19
- p. 224–227Lucifer says Christ cannot save Faustus because he is just.read · scan
Sir Thomas Browne, Religio MediciVol. 3
- p. 307–308It is folly to define God's justice and mercy; unexpected examples will appear at the Last Day.read · scan
John Milton, Poems Written at School and at College, 1624-1632Vol. 4
- p. 11–13Truth, Justice and Mercy would return to men if the golden age came, but fate says not yet.read · scan
John Milton, Poems Written at Horton, 1632-1638Vol. 4
- p. 40–42Just law and vengeful Justice satisfied, yet exceeded by love.read · scan
John Milton, Paradise LostVol. 4
- p. 135God clears his justice from imputation; grace toward Man requires satisfaction of divine justice for man's offence.read · scan
- p. 136God declares mercy and justice both shown, with mercy shining brightest.read · scan
- p. 136Either Man dies or Justice must be satisfied by one able and willing to pay.read · scan
- p. 136Man's satisfaction for Man is declared most just: the Son's merit is imputed and absolves those who renounce their own deeds.read · scan
- p. 136The Son perceives the strife of mercy and justice in the Father's face and offers himself to appease wrath.read · scan
- p. 180Warning ensures Adam cannot plead surprise when transgressing.read · scan
- p. 291God says transgression must be sentenced and justice will not be scorned, yet mercy is joined to it.read · scan
- p. 292The Son undertakes to judge the transgressors, tempering justice with mercy and taking the worst of the doom upon himself.read · scan
- p. 304Heavenly choir sings that God's ways are just and his decrees righteous.read · scan
- p. 342High justice satisfied by Christ enduring the punishment due to man.read · scan
Blaise Pascal, ThoughtsVol. 48
- p. 83Our justice is disproportionate to divine justice.read · scan
- p. 83God's justice must be vast like His compassion; mercy to the elect versus outcast.read · scan
- p. 232The Redeemer will bring eternal justice, not legal justice.read · scan
Blaise Pascal, LettersVol. 48
- p. 344God's justice as well as mercy explains the world not knowing himread · scan
John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's ProgressVol. 15
- p. 212–213Righteousness of Christ covers sinners; each nature's righteousness is essential and cannot be separated.read · scan
- p. 214A justifying righteousness he needs not for himself is bestowed on the undeserving.read · scan
- p. 215Redemption requires a price to satisfy the just curse of law.read · scan
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Profession of Faith of a Savoyard VicarVol. 34
- p. 262–263God, infinitely powerful and good, must be supremely just; goodness creates, justice preserves order.read · scan
- p. 264–266Supreme justice avenges itself on the wicked on earth; the vicar submits to divine justice and mercy.read · scan
Robert Burns, Poems and SongsVol. 6
- p. 72–74Epitaph says justice has given Holy Willie over and mercy's day is gone.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Over-SoulVol. 5
- p. 135–136Justice, love, freedom and power are known as attributes of God.read · scan
10b.The prosperity of the wicked and the suffering of the just
See also: God 8b
Homer, The OdysseyVol. 22
- p. 68Zeus foresees Odysseus taking vengeance on the wooers; Athene decries that righteousness goes unrewarded.read · scan
Aeschylus, AgamemnonVol. 8
- p. 23–24The high gods do not forget; the unjust seem to prosper until the Furies smite his home.read · scan
Aeschylus, Prometheus BoundVol. 8
- p. 171Zeus keeps Right supremely to himself; Prometheus's counsel was repaid unjustly.read · scan
The Book of JobVol. 44
- p. 79–80Job asserts his cause is righteous, asks to be shown his error, and rebukes friends' unjust reproof.read · scan
- p. 83Job asks how man can be just with God, who cannot be contested; God destroys perfect and wicked alike.read · scan
- p. 84–85Job laments no umpire between him and God; he expects condemnation though innocent and demands to know God's charge.read · scan
- p. 86–87Zophar claims God exacts less than Job's iniquity deserves.read · scan
- p. 88–89The just man is mocked while robbers prosper.read · scan
- p. 90–91Job maintains his righteousness and demands to know his sin.read · scan
- p. 95–97Job pleads that God maintain the right of a man with God despite his pure prayer.read · scan
- p. 99–100Job cries out of wrong but finds no justice; God has subverted him in his cause, yet he affirms there is a judgment.read · scan
- p. 102–103Job challenges divine justice: the wicked escape God's rod.read · scan
- p. 104–105Job argues that the wicked and righteous die alike, and no one repays the evil man; retribution is not evident.read · scan
- p. 107–108Job wants to argue his cause before his judge, confident of vindication as upright.read · scan
- p. 108Job catalogues oppression of the poor, widows and orphans while God seems not to regard the folly.read · scan
- p. 108–111Bildad questions whether man can be just or clean before God.read · scan
- p. 117–119Calamity belongs to the unrighteous, so Job asks why evil came when he looked for good.read · scan
- p. 120–121Job wants the adversary's indictment so he may answer it, confident of his innocence.read · scan
- p. 123–124Elihu charges Job with claiming innocence and treating God as unjust.read · scan
- p. 137–138God asks whether Job will condemn him to justify himself, questioning man's judging of divine justice.read · scan
Euripides, HippolytusVol. 8
- p. 360–362Hippolytus protests the injustice of suffering after a life of saintly labor.read · scan
Ecclesiastes; or, The PreacherVol. 44
- p. 338–339Wickedness is found in the place of justice; God will judge righteous and wicked in due time; oppressors go uncomforted.read · scan
- p. 342–343The righteous perish while the wicked prosper; bribery destroys understanding.read · scan
- p. 344–345Sentence against evil is not executed speedily so men do evil; righteous suffer as the wicked deserve, though God will favor those who fear him.read · scan
Virgil, The AeneidVol. 13
- p. 77–80Venus asks whether Jove regards his plighted faith, protesting the Trojans' undeserved suffering.read · scan
- p. 111–113Ripheus, just and observant of right, still falls; heaven judged otherwise.read · scan
Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of ChristVol. 7
- p. 318God's unsearchable judgment afflicts just with wicked, yet with equity.read · scan
William Drummond, PoemsVol. 40
- p. 327–328Questions why the just suffer and the wicked prosper under a supposed providence.read · scan
John Milton, Samson AgonistesVol. 4
- p. 415Just are the ways of God and justifiable to men, though some doubt them.read · scan
Blaise Pascal, ThoughtsVol. 48
- p. 238God looked for justice from Israel and found iniquities.read · scan
- p. 242–243Justice is far because of iniquity.read · scan
Charles Lamb, On the Tragedies of ShakspereVol. 27
- p. 310Lear reproaches the heavens for conniving at the injustice of his children.read · scan
Percy Bysshe Shelley, The CenciVol. 18
- p. 347She laments the small justice shown by Heaven and Earth to her and hers.read · scan
- p. 353Beatrice says God or man has made no difference between good and evil in her lot.read · scan
- p. 353Innocent lives are rewarded by death; murderers live on while the wronged die.read · scan
10c.Compensation in this world or the next
See also: God 3f · Punishment 1b · Law 1b
Homer, The OdysseyVol. 22
- p. 35The Greeks are punished with ill returns because they were not all discreet or just.read · scan
- p. 127–128Odysseus taunts that Zeus and the gods requited the Cyclops for eating guests within his gates.read · scan
- p. 158–159Minos gives sentence from his throne to the dead, judging them.read · scan
- p. 188Eumaeus says the gods love righteous acts and not froward deeds; the wooers know neither the gods' wrath nor pity.read · scan
- p. 282The wooers deal insolently and devise infatuate deeds and will be punished.read · scan
- p. 283Narrator says the wooers have begun devices of shame and their supper will be their last.read · scan
- p. 296The narrator says doom was fastened on the wooers unawares; vengeance for their wrongs is about to fall.read · scan
- p. 311The wooers honoured no man and suffered an evil doom in retribution for insolence.read · scan
- p. 329Laertes rejoices that the gods still rule since the wooers paid for their infatuate pride.read · scan
Aeschylus, AgamemnonVol. 8
- p. 19–21The wrong of the slain will claim revenge in the sight of gods if the host grows wanton.read · scan
- p. 21–22Divine vengeance strikes the sinner; those who spurn the shrine of Right find neither wealth nor power a defence.read · scan
- p. 26–28Paris stands condemned at Fate's judgment-seat; his father's race pays double for his guilt and lust.read · scan
- p. 34–35Right breeds its own likeness in the house of the righteous.read · scan
- p. 36Right turns away from polluted hands and guides all to Fate's goal.read · scan
Aeschylus, The Libation-BearersVol. 8
- p. 102–103The deed unlawfully done is not forgot; Justice plants the anvil and Destiny forges the sword that smites the sinner.read · scan
Aeschylus, The FuriesVol. 8
- p. 133The judgment-seat of Death repays wrongs to God, friend or parent.read · scan
Aeschylus, Prometheus BoundVol. 8
- p. 200–201Note on Adrasteia: inevitable law of retribution overtaking the proud, independent of gods' will.read · scan
The Book of JobVol. 44
- p. 75Eliphaz argues the innocent never perish; those who plow iniquity reap trouble.read · scan
- p. 76–77Shall man be more just than his Maker; God rescues the poor and stops iniquity.read · scan
- p. 82Bildad asks whether God perverts justice, arguing that the pure prosper and the godless perish.read · scan
- p. 105–106Suffering is explained as consequence for oppression of the naked, hungry, widows and fatherless.read · scan
- p. 124–125The Almighty will not pervert justice; he renders to each man according to his ways.read · scan
- p. 126–127God strikes the wicked, hears the cry of the poor; Elihu accuses Job of claiming more righteousness than God.read · scan
- p. 128God does not preserve the wicked but gives the afflicted their right.read · scan
The Book of PsalmsVol. 44
- p. 149–150The psalmist appeals to God to judge him by his righteousness; the wicked's mischief returns on their own head.read · scan
- p. 151–152God judges the world in righteousness, maintains the psalmist's cause, destroys the wicked, and remembers the poor and oppressed.read · scan
- p. 153Prayer that God break the wicked's arm and judge the fatherless and oppressed so man is terrible no more.read · scan
- p. 155–156God is righteous and loves righteousness; he will arise for the oppressed poor and punish the wicked.read · scan
- p. 158Appeals to God to hear the right and judge with equity against the violent and wicked oppressors.read · scan
- p. 160God rewards the psalmist according to his righteousness and clean hands.read · scan
- p. 180God loves righteousness and justice.read · scan
- p. 182–185Asks God to judge according to righteousness and vindicate his cause; celebrates God's righteousness.read · scan
- p. 186Righteousness and justice will shine like the noonday; the wicked's own swords pierce them.read · scan
- p. 186–188Jehovah loves justice; the righteous are not forsaken while the wicked are cut off.read · scan
- p. 215–216God renders to every man according to his work; the wicked plot against the righteous.read · scan
- p. 222–224God judges peoples with equity and defends widows, the fatherless and the poor.read · scan
- p. 235–236God is judge who casts down the wicked and arrogant and lifts up the righteous; the poor and oppressed are remembered.read · scan
- p. 254Righteousness and justice are the foundation of God's throne.read · scan
- p. 262Appeal to God as judge of the earth to render the proud their desert against the wicked who murder widows and orphans.read · scan
- p. 263–264God will judge the world with righteousness, truth and equity.read · scan
- p. 265–266God will judge the world with righteousness and the peoples with equity.read · scan
- p. 285–288The works of his hands are truth and justice.read · scan
- p. 302–303The psalmist pleads to be spared from oppressors, having done justice; God's judgments are upright.read · scan
- p. 311–313Jehovah's righteousness delivers Israel from persecutors and shames those who hate Zion.read · scan
- p. 321Jehovah maintains the cause of the afflicted and justice for the needy; the wicked are overthrown and the upright dwell with him.read · scan
- p. 326–327God is righteous in all his ways, saves those who fear him and destroys the wicked.read · scan
- p. 327–328Jehovah executes justice for the oppressed, sustains the fatherless and widow, and overturns the wicked.read · scan
Euripides, The BacchaeVol. 8
- p. 415–417Chorus calls Justice to strike down the lawless who opposed God.read · scan
Plato, The Apology of SocratesVol. 2
- p. 28In the underworld true judges deliver the dead from unjust human judges.read · scan
Plato, PhaedoVol. 2
- p. 108–109Each receives due reward or penalty according to desert.read · scan
Virgil, The AeneidVol. 13
- p. 117Priam calls on the gods to requite Pyrrhus's brutality, if gods are just, contrasting Achilles' respect for natural law.read · scan
- p. 210Judges review wrongful sentences and award new ones; Minos weighs lives and crimes.read · scan
- p. 210Rhadamanthus hears every crime, inquiring into manner, place and time.read · scan
- p. 210Phlegyas warns the world to learn righteousness and dread the avenging gods.read · scan
Luke, The Acts of the ApostlesVol. 44
- p. 445–446God's impartiality: acceptance is by fear and righteousness, not nation.read · scan
- p. 483–485Islanders assume the viper's bite is Justice pursuing a murderer who escaped the sea, then reverse judgment.read · scan
Epictetus, The Golden Sayings of EpictetusVol. 2
- p. 142–143Hercules obeyed God by delivering the earth from injustice and lawlessness.read · scan
Epictetus, Fragments Attributed to EpictetusVol. 2
- p. 183–185Judge others only after being judged in the tribunal of Justice.read · scan
Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations of Marcus AureliusVol. 2
- p. 214Everything that happens happens justly, as if assigned its value by one who apportions.read · scan
- p. 296If it were just it would be possible; the gods' justice implies nothing is ordered unjustly.read · scan
Saint Augustine, The Confessions of St. AugustineVol. 7
- p. 62–63God's government is just and perfect; the unjust are justly hurt by stumbling against Him.read · scan
Chapters from the KoranVol. 45
- p. 898–899No burdened soul bears another's burden; man has only what he strives for and is fully rewarded.read · scan
- p. 931–932On the last day no wrong is done and God decides with truth.read · scan
- p. 942–943God guides not an unjust people and knows the unjust.read · scan
- p. 947–948God is no unjust one to His servants; like measures returned for treachery.read · scan
- p. 972God does not wrong even by an atom's weight and doubles good works.read · scan
Stories from the Thousand and One NightsVol. 16
- p. 231–232Despite complaint, he affirms that God is wise and has judged with justice.read · scan
Dante Alighieri, HellVol. 20
- p. 13The gate inscription: Justice moved the maker; divine Power, Wisdom and Love built Hell's eternal pain.read · scan
- p. 13Heaven's justice goads the damned across Acheron so that fear turns into desire.read · scan
- p. 28Dante exclaims at Almighty Justice heaping new pains on sinners.read · scan
- p. 77Divine virtue allots a just meed to each, seen in the fitting torments.read · scan
- p. 119Justice is personified as the minister of the Lord who records and punishes forgers.read · scan
Dante Alighieri, PurgatoryVol. 20
- p. 227–228Dante longs for divine vengeance for the wrongs against the Vicar of Christ.read · scan
Dante Alighieri, ParadiseVol. 20
- p. 309Heavenly justice tempers affection so each measures reward to merit, producing harmony like music.read · scan
- p. 358–359Truth will find vindication in vengeance; the wrongdoers will be shamedread · scan
- p. 361Beatrice says God near recompenses every wrongread · scan
- p. 361–363Blessed spirits form 'Diligite justitiam' and an eagle in Jupiter; earthly justice flows from Heavenread · scan
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales; The Nun's Priest's TaleVol. 40
- p. 40Murder will out; God is just and abhors murder and will not let it be hidden, so the murderers are hanged.read · scan
Sir Thomas Malory, The Holy GrailVol. 35
- p. 190Bors sees the slaughter as God's will against evildoers; Galahad says vengeance is not theirs but God's, while the priest calls it a great alms deed.read · scan
- p. 190–192The priest explains the slaughter as destined vengeance: three servants of God destroy the evildoers.read · scan
Benvenuto Cellini, The Autobiography of Benvenuto CelliniVol. 31
- p. 151–152Cellini trusts that God helps those who have the right on their side.read · scan
- p. 243–244He sees his wrongs answered by divine justice; enemies are accursed.read · scan
- p. 340–341Princes should not laugh at God's justice, which falls on those who wrongfully injure their neighbours.read · scan
Sir Francis Drake, Sir Francis Drake RevivedVol. 33
- p. 175The narrator reasons God withheld the treasure because it was wrongly gained.read · scan
Sir Walter Raleigh, Preface to the History of the WorldVol. 39
- p. 70–72Divine justice visits wrongdoing on the wrongdoer's descendants.read · scan
- p. 72God's secret and unsearchable judgment avenges killings.read · scan
- p. 83Injustice clothed with authority ruins Debonnaire's heirs; Bernard's death owed more to men than God or justice.read · scan
- p. 92Jeremiah and Isaiah cry woe on those who build houses by unrighteousness or spoil others.read · scan
William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of DenmarkVol. 46
- p. 160On earth offence's gilded hand may buy out the law, but above there is no shuffling.read · scan
- p. 207Laertes and the King die by their own treachery and poison, justly served; forgiveness is exchanged.read · scan
William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King LearVol. 46
- p. 265–266Lear calls on the gods to find out hidden criminals, unwhipped of justice, and says he is more sinned against than sinning.read · scan
- p. 285–286Albany sees in Cornwall's sudden death proof that the gods above speedily avenge our lower crimes.read · scan
- p. 310Edgar says the gods are just and make our pleasant vices instruments to plague us; Edmund's begetting cost Gloucester his eyes.read · scan
- p. 310–314Albany calls the deaths of Goneril and Regan a judgement of the heavens, though it touches him not with pity.read · scan
- p. 315Albany says friends shall taste the wages of virtue and foes the cup of their deservings.read · scan
William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of MacbethVol. 46
- p. 335–336Even-handed justice returns the poisoned chalice to the inventor's own lips.read · scan
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Philaster, or Love Lies A-BleedingVol. 47
- p. 704Philaster asks whether it is justice that the gods let treason wear so smooth a brow.read · scan
Sir Thomas Browne, Religio MediciVol. 3
- p. 297–298The last day will vindicate God's justice, reconciling this world's inequalities in recompensive justice in the next.read · scan
John Milton, Paradise LostVol. 4
- p. 292The Serpent, though a brute instrument, is justly accursed; guilt cannot be transferred to the maker.read · scan
- p. 342God in just judgment subjects unreasonable men to violent lords.read · scan
Molière, Tartuffe, or The HypocriteVol. 26
- p. 293–295Heaven's justice reveals Tartuffe as a known criminal; the king restores property and rewards noble deeds.read · scan
Blaise Pascal, ThoughtsVol. 48
- p. 315Appeals from unjust condemnation to God's tribunal.read · scan
Jean Racine, PhaedraVol. 26
- p. 185–186He trusts the just gods to vindicate him and punish Phaedra.read · scan
Samuel Johnson, Life of Addison, 1672-1719Vol. 27
- p. 186–187Divine justice compensates in futurity for the wicked prospering and the guiltless suffering.read · scan
David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human UnderstandingVol. 37
- p. 400Argues that divine justice can be inferred only to the extent distributive justice is actually seen in the world, so no future reckoning is warranted.read · scan
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Profession of Faith of a Savoyard VicarVol. 34
- p. 267–268Divine justice follows from goodness; human injustice is man's own work, and God requires an account of talents entrusted.read · scan
- p. 277Injustice suffered will be indemnified by the just Being who governs all.read · scan
John Woolman, The Journal of John WoolmanVol. 1
- p. 203Warns that the burden of injustice will grow heavier and may prompt God's just retribution.read · scan
- p. 288God will plead the cause of the oppressed; the arm supporting injustice will be broken.read · scan
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in FranceVol. 24
- p. 373The poor are taught consolation in the final proportions of eternal justice; whoever removes it is their cruel oppressor.read · scan
Friedrich Schiller, William TellVol. 26
- p. 397–398Furst sees Wolfshot's killing by Baumgarten as proof that Heaven is just in its judgments.read · scan
- p. 464–465Tell holds that the Emperor never authorized such cruelty and that a God lives to punish and avenge.read · scan
Alessandro Manzoni, I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed)Vol. 21
- p. 47–48Renzo, denied help, insists there must be justice in the end, even in this world.read · scan
- p. 51–52Renzo, wronged, repeats that there must be justice at last, even in this world.read · scan
- p. 85–86The justice of God cannot be resisted by four walls; Rodrigo will be judged.read · scan
- p. 98He asks Renzo to allow God time to give them justice.read · scan
Thomas Carlyle, Inaugural Address at EdinburghVol. 25
- p. 365Sophocles shows the eternal justice of Heaven and punishment of crime against God's laws.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, An Address Delivered before the Senior Class in Divinity CollegeVol. 5
- p. 26–27The soul's justice has instant, entire retributions: a good deed ennobles, a mean deed contracts.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, CompensationVol. 5
- p. 85–86Emerson denies the preacher's concession that the bad succeed and justice is not done now; justice is present.read · scan
- p. 89–90Emerson argues justice is never postponed; a perfect equity balances all parts of life, and every wrong is redressed.read · scan
- p. 92Nemesis and the Furies, attendants on Justice, let no offence go unchastised.read · scan
- p. 94Treating men as things and seeking a good for oneself that is not good for others brings its own penalty.read · scan
- p. 95Unjust accumulations of property and power are avenged; the tremblings of prosperity are the balance of justice in the heart.read · scan
- p. 95–96Persons and events may delay justice but only postpone it; every debt must be paid at last.read · scan
- p. 98–99No one is cheated but by himself; the nature of things guarantees every contract, so honest service never loses.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, New England ReformersVol. 5
- p. 269–270A living Law rewards actions by their nature; men believe right is done at last, else 'justice' would mean nothing.read · scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson, WorshipVol. 5
- p. 280–281When a man cares not to cheat his neighbor, all goes well; justice will be done us.read · scan
- p. 283Atoms are in search of justice and ultimate right is done.read · scan
- p. 284–285Reaction or nothing for nothing is a rule for the Universe, not just for towns.read · scan
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1306–1307Basil complains that might is right; the notary answers that man is unjust but God is just and justice finally triumphs.read · scan
- p. 1313–1314Remembering the justice of Heaven soothes her troubled soul.read · scan
Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln's First Inaugural AddressVol. 43
- p. 321Truth and justice of the Almighty will prevail through the judgment of the American people.read · scan
Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln's Second Inaugural AddressVol. 43
- p. 424War seen as just retribution: blood by the sword paid for blood drawn by the lash.read · scan
James Russell Lowell, Abraham LincolnVol. 28
- p. 437–439Simple manhood believing in the justice of God shows magnanimity.read · scan
James Russell Lowell, PoemsVol. 42
- p. 1371–1372The future beam inclines to perfect justice.read · scan
10d.The justice of divine punishment questioned
Dante Alighieri, HellVol. 20
- p. 81Virgil says no guilt exceeds striving against Heaven's judgment; pity is properly dead here.read · scan
Dante Alighieri, ParadiseVol. 20
- p. 297Human eyes find divine justice unjust, which is argument for faith rather than heresy.read · scan
- p. 365The eagle, formed of just spirits, reflects celestial Justice; its glory rewards being just and piteous, and God's justice lies deeper than mortal sight.read · scan
- p. 365–368Answers how God can justly condemn the virtuous unbaptized man born on the Indus; justice is consonance with the Primal Will.read · scan
Sir Thomas Malory, The Holy GrailVol. 35
- p. 150–151Each shall bear his own burden; the son shall not bear the father's wickedness.read · scan
Sir Thomas Browne, Religio MediciVol. 3
- p. 305It is insolent to question the justice of God's proceedings toward the unbaptized.read · scan
John Milton, Paradise LostVol. 4
- p. 125Sin says God calls his wrath justice and uses Satan as drudge.read · scan
- p. 261Satan argues that a just God could not punish so petty a trespass or harm them.read · scan
- p. 304Adam contests God's terms as hard, then concedes the doom is fair and the penalty justly at God's will.read · scan
- p. 304He asks why divine justice does not hasten to end him.read · scan
Blaise Pascal, ThoughtsVol. 48
- p. 145Damning an infant for Adam's sin seems contrary to our miserable justice.read · scan
- p. 161Men judge God by themselves; God would be unjust unless we were born guilty.read · scan
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Profession of Faith of a Savoyard VicarVol. 34
- p. 283–284Punishing men for the accident of birthplace would impeach God's justice.read · scan
- p. 286–287Asks whether it is just to require obedience to God's envoy without adequate universal credentials.read · scan
- p. 295–296Asks by what equity Christians favor themselves, and how it is just to damn those who never heard the gospel.read · scan
- p. 296–297Eternal punishment for ignorance caused by others' delay is irreconcilable with a just God.read · scan
- p. 299Persecutors would sooner call God unjust, visiting fathers' sins on children, than abandon their cruelty.read · scan
- p. 300A compulsory duty to accept revelation is incompatible with God's justice.read · scan
Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám of NaishápúrVol. 41
- p. 953–955Protests making a conscious creature and punishing him with everlasting penalties for unpermitted pleasure.read · scan
- p. 955–957Refuses to call injustice grace: God repays his creature for a debt never contracted, laying pitfalls then imputing sin.read · scan
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