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Again, in his First Book of Justice, having spoken
of the Gods as resisting the injustices of some, he says
‘But wholly to take away vice is neither possible nor expedient.’ Whether it were not better that law-breaking,
injustice, and folly should be taken away, is not the design
of this present discourse to enquire. But he himself, as
much as in him lies, by his philosophy taking away vice,
which it is not expedient to take away, does something repugnant both to reason and God. Besides this, saying
that God resists some injustices, he again declares plainly
the impiety of sins.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press Of John Wilson and son. 1874. 4.
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