Si enim vos talibus puniendis praesidetis, si conmercium, colloquium, convictum malorum et turpium probi quique respuitis, horum autem pares deus ille maiestatis suae consortio adscivit, quid ergo damnatis quorum collegas adoratis? Suggillatio est in caelo vestra iustitia.
If you sit as magistrates to punish such persons, if you (all decent people, that is) repudiate intercourse, converse, association with the bad and foul, but if the great God took their like to be partners of his majesty'why do you condemn people, whose fellows you adore? Your justice is an affront to heaven.
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