242. We wish if we
can to point out three classes of men who receive wrongs in holy
Scripture. One of these forms the class of those whom the sinner
reviles, abuses, rides over rough-shod.
“inequitat.” Ed. Med. has
“inquietat.” And just because justice fails
them, shame grows, pain increases. Very many of my own order, of
my own number, are like these. For if any one does me, who am
weak, an injury, perhaps, though I am weak, I may forgive the wrong
done me. If he charges me with an offence I am not such an one as
to be content with the witness of my own conscience, although I know I
am clear of what he brings against me; but I desire, just because I am
weak, to wash out the mark of my inborn shame. Therefore I demand
eye for eye, and tooth for tooth, and repay abuse with
abuse.