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Orthodox Doctrine (Summary of Christian Divinity)
Metropolitan Platon of Moscow, tr. Pinkerton, 1814
In such a state, rational man fell under all the severity of God’s wrath.
In such a state, rational man fell under all the severity of God’s wrath.
No one will dare to affirm, that God can equally love the righteous and the wicked. This can never be reconciled with his infinite justice and holiness. Hence, justice itself requires, that God should turn away from that man who is a stubborn and impenitent despiser of his holy will. Now, this turning away of God from man, is one of the most dreadful calamities; and more particularly when we reflect, that after he is thus abandoned by his Creator, every possible evil must inevitably fall upon him. Of this, the Holy Scriptures say, “Indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil.” Rom. ii. 9.