(for 1 i.ad that boon His will, ITo ought to have boon silent), but that He might by fear make them better, and so quiet His wrath: so also hath lie appointed a punishment for those who wantonly assail the eyes of others, that if good principle dis pose them not to refrain from such cruelty, fear may restrain them from injuring their neighbors sight.

"And if this be cruelty, it is cruelty also for the murderer to be restrained, and the adulterer checked. lUit these are the sayings of senseless men, and of those that are mad to the extreme of madness. For I, so far from saying that tlii.s comes of cruelly, should say that the contrary to this would be unlaw ful, according to men's reckoning. And whereas thou sayest, Because He commanded to pluck out an eye for an eye, therefore He is cruel; I say that if He had not given this commandment, then He would have seemed, in the judgment of most men, to be that which thou sayest He is."

Chrysostom clearly recognized the law, An eye for an eye, as divine, and the contrary of that law, that is, the doctrine of Jesus, Resist not evil, as an iniq uity. "For let us suppose," says Chrysostom fur ther:

" For let us suppose that this law had been alto gether done away, and that no one feared the pun ishment ensuing thereupon, but that license had been given to all the wicked to follow their own dis positions in all securit} , to adulterers, and to mur derers, to perjured persons, and to parricides; would not all things have been turned upside down ? would