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| “Genesis” Inconsistent with God's Justice.
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Chapter
XXX.—“Genesis” Inconsistent with God’s
Justice.
“Behold, from the very matter in which we
are now engaged850
| 850 [This conclusion
of the argument by a reference to the Prophet is much more dignified
than the personal boast of miraculous power which, in the
Homilies, is placed in the mouth of the Apostle just before the
recognition.—R.] | draw an inference,
and from the circumstances in which we are now placed deduce a
conclusion, how, through a rumour only reaching the ears of men that a Prophet
had appeared in Judæa to teach men with signs and miracles to
worship one God, all were expecting with prepared and eager minds, even
before the coming of my lord Peter, that some one would announce to
them what He taught who had appeared. But lest I should seem to
carry the enumeration too far, I shall tell you what conclusion ought
to be drawn from the whole. Since God is righteous, and since He
Himself made the nature of men, how could it be that He should place
Genesis in opposition to us, which should
compel us to sin, and then that He should punish us when we do
sin? Whence it is certain that God punishes no sinner either in
the present life or in that to come, except because He knows that he
could have conquered, but neglected victory. For even in the
present world He takes vengeance upon men, as He did upon those who
perished in the deluge, who were all destroyed in one day, yea, in one
hour, although it is certain that they were not all born in one hour
according to the order of genesis. But it is most absurd
to say that it befalls us by nature to suffer evils, if sins had not
gone before.
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