See the same collocation of words in Cic. Nat. deor. ii. 3.
863
The etymologies given here by Augustine are, "monstra," a monstrando; "ostenta," ab ostendendo; "portenta," a portendendo, i. e. præostendendo; "prodigia," quod porro dicant, i. e. futura prædicant.
864
Isa. lxvi. 24.
865
Mark ix. 43-48.
866
2 Cor. xi. 29.
867
Isa. li. 8.
868
Ecclus. vii. 17.
869
Rom. viii. 13.
870
1 Cor. xiii. 9, 10.
871
Matt. xxv. 41.
872
Luke xvi. 24.
873
Rev. xx. 10.
874
"Talio," i. e. the rendering of like for like, the punishment being exactly similar to the injury sustained.
875
Ex. xxi. 24.
876
Luke vi. 38.
877
Remanerent. But Augustine constantly uses the imp. for the plup. subjunctive.
878
Plato's own theory was that punishment had a twofold purpose, to reform and to deter. "No one punishes an offender on account of the past offence, and simply because he has done wrong, but for the sake of the future, that the offence may not be again committed, either by the same person or by any one who has seen him punished." – See the Protagoras, 324, b, and Grote's Plato, ii. 41.
879
Æneid, vi. 733.
880
Job vii. 1.
881
Compare Goldsmith's saying, "We begin life in tears, and every day tells us why."
882
Ecclus. xl. 1.
883
2 Tim. ii. 19.
884
Rom. viii. 14.
885
Gal. v. 17.
886
"Fari."
887