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 "I have seen them that work iniquity,
and that sow sorrows·, and reap theme. " Job 4:8. He that sows sins shall reap sorrows and pains.

 "Because thou hast forgotten Me and
hast cast Me off behind thy body, bear thou also thy wickedness and thy fornications ." 
Ezech. 23:35.

St. Cyprian says:  "Why should you
wonder that God's anger is growing when what is punishable is every day growing?"  Ad Demetrianum
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St. Basil:  "No one troubles himself about
inquiring why drought, lightning, hail, are sent down upon us; they are sent us on account of
our sins, and because we preserve an
impenitent heart."  In cap. 9 Isaiae.

St. John Chrysostom: "We must repress
sin, the fountain of evils."  In Ps. 3.

St. Gregory:  "Rightly is everything hostile to us that has gratified our, passions.''
 In Evang. hom 35.

St. Anselm:  "By offending Go we not
only excite his anger, but the anger of all creation."
 De Simil. c. 102.

Salvian:  "Why wonder that we are
chastised? Miseries, infirmities, are signs of evil. We force God to punish us."
  De Gubern. Dei, 1. 4.

Cardinal Hugo:  "Every creature complains of those that abuse it "

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