[873] Rev. xx. 10.
[874] "Talio," i.e. the rendering of like for like, the punishment being exactly similar to the injury sustained.
[875] Ex. xxi. 24.
[876] Luke vi. 38.
[877] Remanerent. But Augustine constantly uses the imp. for the plup. subjunctive.
[878] Plato's own theory was that punishment had a twofold purpose, to reform and to deter. "No one punishes an offender on account of the past offence, and simply because he has done wrong, but for the sake of the future, that the offence may not be again committed, either by the same person or by any one who has seen him punished."—See the Protagoras, 324, b, and Grote's Plato, ii. 41.
[879] Æneid, vi. 733.
[880] Job vii. 1.
[881] Compare Goldsmith's saying, "We begin life in tears, and every day tells us why."
[882] Ecclus. xl. 1.