Wisdom 12:25
Therefore thou hast sent a judgment upon them as senseless children to mock them.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Propter hoc tamquam pueris insensatis judicium in derisum dedisti.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- διὰ τοῦτο ὡς παισὶν ἀλογίστοις τὴν κρίσιν εἰς ἐμπαιγμὸν ἔπεμψας·
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm IX
For notice of two judgments is conveyed to us throughout the Scriptures, if any one will give heed to them, one hidden, the other manifest. The hidden one is passing now, of which the Apostle Peter says, “The time is come that judgment should begin from the house of the Lord.” The hidden judgment accordingly is the pain, by which now each man is either exercised to purification, or warned to conversion, or if he despise the calling and discipline of God, is blinded unto damnation. But the manifest judgment is that in which the Lord, at His coming, will judge the quick and the dead, all men confessing that it is He by whom both rewards shall be assigned to the good, and punishments to the evil. But then that confession will avail, not to the remedy of evils, but to the accumulation of damnation. …