CQOD: 11/14/07 -- Law: vengeance is Mine

Christian Quotation of the Day

November 14, 2007

Commemoration of Samuel Seabury, First Anglican Bishop in North America, 1796

Meditation:
    Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.
    -- Romans 12:19 (KJV)

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Quotation:
    Here you have the true reason why revenge or vengeance is not allowed to man: it is because vengeance can only work in the evil or disordered properties of fallen nature. But man, being himself a part of fallen nature and subject to its disordered properties, is not allowed to work with them, because it would be stirring up evil in himself, and that is his sin of wrath or revenge. God therefore reserves all vengeance to Himself, not because wrathful revenge is a temper or quality that can have any place in the holy Deity, but because the holy supernatural Deity, being free from all the properties of nature, whence partial love and hatred spring, and being in Himself nothing but an infinity of love, wisdom, and goodness, He alone knows how to overrule the disorders of nature, and so to repay evil with evil, that the highest good may be promoted by it.
    ... William Law (1686-1761), The Spirit of Love [1752-4]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You bring all good out of evil.

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