Francis Patrick Kenrick

P. "Overthrown." L. " Bent me down." He complains of the severity of the Divine visitation, not that God acted unjustly, but that an occasion appeared to be given by the fault of his afflicted servant. " How harshly," exclaims St. Gregory, "does this expression sound on the lips of the just man when scourged, which, nevertheless, was not dictated by pride, but wrung from him by suffering!"