LORD, you will ordain peace for us: for you also have done all our works in us.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
When you see a person living in wickedness and enjoying great prosperity without suffering any misfortune, you should mourn particularly for this reason, because although he is afflicted with a very serious disease and ulcer, he aggravates his illness, making himself worse by his luxury and self-indulgence. For punishment is not evil, but sin is evil. The latter separates us from God, but the former leads us toward God and dissolves his anger. How do we know this? Hear what the prophet says, “Comfort, comfort my people, O priests, speak tenderly to Jerusalem … that she has received from the Lord’s hand double for all her sins.” And elsewhere he says, “O Lord our God, give us peace; for you have given us all our due.”
