Bonaventure, on Wis 6:4

“For power is given you by the Lord, and strength by the most High, who will examine your works, and search out your thoughts:”

“I have rightly said that he will examine etc.: and deservedly so, since, when you were ministers, not lords, of his kingdom, that is, of the Church Militant: 1 Peter 5: "Not as lording it over the clergy, but being made a pattern of the flock from the heart"; likewise 1 Corinthians 4: "Let a man so account of us as ministers of Christ" etc. You did not judge rightly, namely others: whence Isaiah 1: "They do not judge for the orphan, and the cause of the widow does not come before them"; likewise Jeremiah 5: "They did not judge the cause of the widow, they did not direct the cause of the orphan." Neither did you keep the law of justice, namely in yourselves: in the Psalm: "They did not keep the covenant of God, and in his law they refused to walk"; Isaiah 59: "Judgment is turned backward, and justice has stood afar off"; likewise Jeremiah 5: "These have rather broken the yoke, they have burst the bonds." Neither did you walk according to the will of God, sinning against God: Jeremiah 7: "They went after the pleasures and the depravity of their evil heart." Or it can be said that he touches upon the threefold manner in which a sentence is called unjust: first, from the cause, namely when no just cause underlies it; second, from the procedure, as when the order of law is not observed; third, from the intention, as when one proceeds against someone with a corrupt intention: against which it is said in Deuteronomy 16: "You shall justly pursue what is just."”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.