Divine justice
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Justice the Fulfiller · divine justice · divine law · justice · laws given by the gods · manifest justice · the justice of God · will of the gods
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An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
The justice exercised by God over sin, explicitly distinguished from and placed beyond the competence of human law and magistrates.
for he alone can, without injustice, be, at the same time, both one and the other.
Even among the motives which incite men to acts of religion, the invisible Legislator has ordained rewards and punishments.
I do not, by any means, speak of the justice of God, which is of another kind, and refers immediately to rewards and punishments in a life to come.
Bacchae
The idea that the gods enforce justice against mortals who dishonor them, voiced as a refrain by the Chorus and as a moral by Kadmos.
If anyone scorns the gods, let him look to the death of this man and acknowledge them.
Let manifest justice go forth, let it go with sword in hand, slaying through the throat this godless, lawless, unjust, earth-born offspring of Echion.
Let manifest justice go forth, let it go with sword in hand, slaying through the throat this godless, lawless, unjust, earth-born offspring of Echion.