{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/008/0080516.htm","path":"chr/ecf/008/0080516.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/008/0080516.htm","text":"Then my father answered: \u201cBut as the harmfulness of an inharmonious conjunction of elements or stars is immediately betrayed, so ought also adultery to be immediately shown that it is an evil.\u201d Then I: \u201cFirst tell me this, whether, as you yourself have confessed, evils are produced from incongruous and inharmonious mixture; and then after that we shall inquire into the other matter.\u201d Then my father said: \u201cThe nature of things is as you say, my son.\u201d Then I answered: \u201cSince, then, you wish to learn of these things, see how many things there are which no one doubts to be evils. Do you think that a fever, a fire, sedition, the fall of a house, murder, holds, racks, pains, mournings, and such like, are evils?\u201d Then said my father: \u201cIt is true, my son, that these things are evil, and very evil; or, at all events, whoever denies that they are evil, let him suffer them!\u201d","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol VIII: Pseudo-Clementine Literature.: Chapter VIII","type":"page"}