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So there is no shame in his works, but the greatest ugliness in his sentences!Guilt certainly deserves punishment.But does the disgrace due to guilt therefore pass into the punishment, so that what the guilty person did can be named without shame, while what God did in judging cannot be spoken of without dishonor?
Ergo in operibus eius nullus pudor est; in sententiis autem summa deformitas. Certum est nempe, quod poenam mereatur reatus; num ideo tamen confusio culpae debita, in vindicta recurrit, ut appelletur sine pudore quod fecit reus, sed non possit sine ignominia dici quod iudicando fecit Deus?