“It is said with regard to sinners, "You whipped them, but they did not suffer." The perceived whips of this world, inflicted on living bodies, whether those whipped want them or not, produce pain. But God's whips are of a kind that to some of those who are whipped they cause pain but for others who are whipped, they d…”
Origen of Alexandria, 3th c. — HOMILIES ON JEREMIAH 6:2
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2Who will set scourges over my thoughts, and the discipline of wisdom over mine heart? that they spare me not for mine ignorances, and it pass not by my sins:
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1O Lord, Father and Governor of all my whole life, leave me not to their counsels, and let me not fall by them.
— Sirach 23:2 —
3Lest mine ignorances increase, and my sins abound to my destruction, and I fall before mine adversaries, and mine enemy rejoice over me, whose hope is far from thy mercy.
4O Lord, Father and God of my life, give me not a proud look, but turn away from thy servants always a haughty mind.