I am sure I have heard the proverb (or whatever you call it), "To spare the wicked is to punish the just." Can anyone help me identify the source of it? I have tried googling it to no avail. Ideally I would like to find it in Latin, which I believe is the language I saw it in. Thanks for any help!
2007-09-30 17:04:38 · 3 answers · asked by Agellius CM 3 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
Josephus (9:(6)[132] After these, there met him a good and a righteous man, whose name was Jehonadab, and who had been his friend of old. He saluted Jehu, and began to commend him, because he had done every thing according to the will of God, in extirpating the house of Ahab. So Jehu desired him to come up into his chariot, and make his entry with him into Samaria; and told him that he would not spare one wicked man, but would punish the false prophets, and false priests, and those that deceived the multitude, and persuaded them to leave the worship of God Almighty, and to worship foreign gods; and that it was a most excellent and most pleasing sight to a good and a righteous man to see the wicked punished.
2007-09-30 17:22:56 · answer #1 · answered by innamorta2000 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The other problem is that you may be hearing an approximation of the original statement
2007-10-01 00:29:16 · answer #2 · answered by Experto Credo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
here ya go. http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/ans/ans016.htm
2007-10-01 00:12:42 · answer #3 · answered by jim c 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋