Will you be angry with us forever? will you draw out your anger to all generations?
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
5. "Be not angry with us for ever" (ver. 5). For by the anger of God we are subject to death, and by the anger of God we eat bread on this earth in want, and in the sweat of our face. This was Adam's sentence when he sinned: and that Adam was every one of us, for "in Adam all die;" the sentence passed on him hath taken effect after him on us. For we were not yet ourselves, but we were in Adam: therefore whatever happened to Adam himself took effect on us also, so that we should die: for we all were in him. ...So far as this the sin of thy father hurts thee not, if thou hast changed thyself, even as it would not hurt thy father if he had changed himself. But that which our stock hath received unto its subjection to death, it hath derived from Adam. What hath it so derived? That frailty of the flesh, this torture of pains, this house of poverty, this chain of death, and snares of temptations; all these things we carry about in this flesh; and this is the anger of God, because it is the v...
Ever. The Pythagoreans settled their differences before sunset. (Plut.)
"Cherish not, mortals, an immortal wrath. "(Aristotle, Rhet. ii. 21.) (Haydock)
As long, O God, as we see not our brethren restored, we shall think that thou art not perfectly reconciled to us. (Calmet)
