Divine justice
idea · 5 works · 5 mentions · 13 anchored passages
the divine law · Justice the Fulfiller · divine justice · divine law · justice · laws given by the gods · manifest justice · our laws · the justice of God · the law
in the texts
Letters
Ecclesiastical/divine law, contrasted with civil statutes, offering both correction and hope of salvation.
But surely, even if it has been sworn by you to give them up for punishment according to the laws, neither is our reproof less effective for vindication, nor is the divine law less honourable than the statutes current in life.
But it was possible that they, being here turned to our laws — in which you yourself too have the hope of salvation — should both free you from the necessity of your oath, and themselves fulfil a penalty proportionate to the offences.
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.
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.
for he alone can, without injustice, be, at the same time, both one and the other.
Stromata
The Mosaic/divine law, presented as instilling fear and caution, regulating marriage, and ultimately harmonious with the Gospel.
Wherefore it seems to me that the divine law necessarily hangs fear over us, that, by caution and attention, the philosopher may gain and keep freedom from anxiety, remaining unstumbling and sinless in all things.
"You shall not put away your wife, except for the matter of fornication";
" You see how he too brings caution toward the divine law?
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.
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.
If anyone scorns the gods, let him look to the death of this man and acknowledge them.
Ajax
The idea that gods govern events and that treatment of the dead falls under divine law and punishment.
Therefore may the Father supreme on Olympus above us, and the unforgetting Fury and Justice the Fulfiller destroy them for their wickedness with wicked deaths, just as they sought to cast this man out with unmerited, outrageous mistreatment.
These events that you see would not have happened as they have without the will of the gods.
Yet what suffering the divine daughter of Zeus, fierce Pallas, engenders for Odysseus’ sake!