Wisdom 12:11
For it was a cursed seed from the beginning: neither didst thou for fear of any one give pardon to their sins.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Semen enim erat maledictum ab initio ; nec timens aliquem, veniam dabas peccatis illorum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- σπέρμα γὰρ ἦν κατηραμένον ἀπ᾽ ἀρχῆς· οὐδὲ εὐλαβούμενός τινα ἐφ᾽ οἷς ἡμάρτανον ἄδειαν ἐδίδους.
Haydock's commentary
Pardon. Or impunity. (Calmet)
"Thou art angry, and yet are tranquil.["] (St. Augustine, Confessions i. 4.)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine On Marriage and Concupiscence, Original Sin is Derived from the Faulty Condition of Human Seed
This, however, I would not say, as implying at all that we must look for some other creator than the supreme and true God, of either human seed or of man himself who comes from the seed; but as meaning, that the seed would have issued from the human being by the quiet and normal obedience of his members to his will’s command, if sin had not preceded. The question now before us does not concern the nature of human seed, but its corruption. Now the nature has God for its author; it is from its corruption that original sin is derived. …
St Augustine On Marriage and Concupiscence, God Not the Author of the Evil in Those Whom He Creates
Then, does God feed the children of perdition, the goats on His left hand, for the devil and nourish and clothe them for the devil “because He maketh His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sendeth rain upon the just and the unjust”? He creates, then, the evil just in the same way as He feeds and nourishes the evil; because what He bestows on them by creating them appertains to the goodness of nature; and the growth which He gives them by food and nourishment, He bestows on them, of course, as a kindly help, not to their evil character, but to that same good nature which He in His goodness created. …