XXVIII.—The Righteous Rise Again.

Righteousness and goodness, peace and true patience, and care concerning one’s deeds, make to live after death.  But a crafty mind, mischievous, perfidious, evil, destroys itself by degrees, and delays in a cruel death.  O wicked man, hear now what thou gainest by thy evil deeds.  Look on the judges of earth, who now in the body torture with terrible punishments; either chastisements are prepared for the deserving by the sword, or to weep in a long imprisonment.  Dost thou, last of all, hope to laugh at the God of heaven and the Ruler of the sky, by whom all things were made?  Thou ragest, thou art mad, and now thou takest away the name of God, from whom, moreover, thou shalt not escape; and He will award punishments according to your deeds.  Now I would have you be cautious that thou come not to the burning of fire.  Give thyself up at once to Christ, that goodness may attend thee.

XXVIII.---JUSTI RESURGUNT.

Justitia et bonitas, pax et patientia vera Vivere post fata faciunt, et cura de actu. Subdola meus autem, noxia, perfida, prava, Tollit se in partes, et fera morte moratur. Impie, nunc audi, quid per malefacta lucraris; 0222C Respice terrenos judices, in corpore qui nunc Excruciant poenis diros: aut ferro parantur Supplicia meritis, aut longo carcere flere. Ultime tu speras Deum irridere coelestem, Rectoremque poli, per quem sunt omnia facta? 0223A Grassaris, insanis, detractas nunc et Dei nomen; Unde non effugies: poenas per factaque ponet. Nunc volo sis cautus, ne venias ignis in aestum. Trade te jam Christo, ut te benefacta sequantur.