Excerpt from Plutarch on the Delay of the Divine Justice: Translated With an Introduction and Notes
1. The dialogue opens with comments on the cavils against the Divine Providence by a person who is supposed to have just departed.
2. The alleged encouragement to the guilty by the delay of punishment, while the sufferers by the guilt of others are disheartened by failing to see the wrongdoers duly punished.
3. The guilty themselves, it is said, do not recognize punishment when it comes late, but think it mere misfortune.
4. Plutarch answers the objections to the course of Providence. In the first place, man must not be too confident of his ability to pass judgment on things divine. There are many things in human legislation undoubtedly reasonable, yet with no obvious reason. How much more in the administration of the universe by the Supreme Being!
5. God by the delay of punishment gives man the example of forbearance, and rebukes his yielding to the first impulses of anger and of a vindictive temper.
6. God has reference, in the delay of punishment, to the possible reformation of the guilty, and to the services which, when reformed, they may render to their country or their race. Instances cited.
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