Pills of OUR (?) History (11)
"The JUSTICE of God is a kind of COMMUNITY WITH EQUALITY. The sky, equally stretched from every part, embraces the entire earth all around. The night reveals all the stars in the same way; and the sun, the principle of the day and the father of light, God has poured down from above onto the earth, equal for all those who can see it (and they all look at it in the same way): since He does not distinguish between rich or poor, leaders or commoners, foolish or wise, males or females, free or enslaved. Nor does He act against this norm concerning irrational beings: indeed, He has poured forth the sun equally and jointly for all animals, thereby solidifying justice for the good and the bad, since no one can have more or take away from their neighbor, in order to double their own share of light by seizing theirs as well. The sun provides common nourishment to all animals, thereby distributing its common justice in equal measure to all... Conversely, our laws, INCAPABLE OF PUNISHING HUMAN IGNORANCE, taught people to transgress them: indeed, their particularism has shattered the community of divine law and corrodes it... (God) created the vines in common for everyone, which are not protected from sparrows or thieves; just like grain and other fruits. But THE BANISHMENT of community and criteria of equality PRODUCED THE THIEF of sheep and fruits."
From "On Justice," a work of the 2nd century AD written by the heretical sect of the Carpocratians (apparently, without God, they'd be predecessors of companions). The fragment is quoted by Clement of Alexandria, a Church Father, in his Stromata.
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"The JUSTICE of God is a kind of COMMUNITY WITH EQUALITY. The sky, equally stretched from every part, embraces the entire earth all around. The night reveals all the stars in the same way; and the sun, the principle of the day and the father of light, God has poured down from above onto the earth, equal for all those who can see it (and they all look at it in the same way): since He does not distinguish between rich or poor, leaders or commoners, foolish or wise, males or females, free or enslaved. Nor does He act against this norm concerning irrational beings: indeed, He has poured forth the sun equally and jointly for all animals, thereby solidifying justice for the good and the bad, since no one can have more or take away from their neighbor, in order to double their own share of light by seizing theirs as well. The sun provides common nourishment to all animals, thereby distributing its common justice in equal measure to all... Conversely, our laws, INCAPABLE OF PUNISHING HUMAN IGNORANCE, taught people to transgress them: indeed, their particularism has shattered the community of divine law and corrodes it... (God) created the vines in common for everyone, which are not protected from sparrows or thieves; just like grain and other fruits. But THE BANISHMENT of community and criteria of equality PRODUCED THE THIEF of sheep and fruits."
From "On Justice," a work of the 2nd century AD written by the heretical sect of the Carpocratians (apparently, without God, they'd be predecessors of companions). The fragment is quoted by Clement of Alexandria, a Church Father, in his Stromata.
@[macaco]
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