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25. Curses are to be abstained from. For he would sin if he wished that to be done by God, which he himself either could not at all do, or, if he could, it would by no means be fitting. For those who assail an enemy with curses, what else do they wish God to do in him, except what they themselves either cannot do, or are ashamed to do? For they long for the death of an adversary, which even if they can inflict, they fear to, lest they be either held guilty of perpetrated homicide, or appear wicked even when they are. What, then, is it to say to God: Kill him whom I hate, except to cry out to Him with open voices: Do this to my adversary, which to do against him befits not even me, a sinner? In which words indeed it is to be weighed by us where this man had read: Love your enemies (Luke VI, 27, 35);
where he had read: Bless, and do not curse (Rom. XII, 14); and again: Not rendering evil for evil, nor curse for curse (1 Pet. III, 9). But he was keeping the precepts of supernal grace, not heard outwardly, because these the inbreathing of the Holy Spirit was writing in the mind of that holy man. Yet it would have been too little for him that he should love those placed outside, unless he also tolerated as familiar adversaries even those living within and daily conversing with him. Whence he subjoins: