Lawlessness is related to impiety: just as [the impious] exchanged God's truth for a lie, so they turned the lawful enjoyment of desire to unlawful. Receiving in their own persons the due penalty for their error. Ignominy is the ultimate penalty for this passion: what no enemy ever attempted to commit against them they embraced with complete enthusiasm; and the penalty no judge ever awarded against them they inflicted on themselves.
Theodoret of Cyrus, "The Letter to the Romans"
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