Or, there shall be “weeping” for such as have laughed amiss in this world, “gnashing of teeth” for those who have enjoyed an irrational peace. For being unwilling to suffer bodily pain, now the torture forces their teeth to chatter, with which they have eaten the bitterness of wickedness. From this we may learn that the Lord sets over His household not the faithful and wise only, but the wicked also; and that it will not save them to have been set over His household, but only if they have given them their food in due season, and have abstained from beating and drunkenness.
Reproduced in full. Translation: Oxford 1841 (Newman), public domain (Public domain).
