Friedrich von Logau. 1604-1655.
Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small;[793:3]
Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all.
Retribution. (Sinngedichte.)
Man-like is it to fall into sin,
Fiend-like is it to dwell therein;
Christ-like is it for sin to grieve,
God-like is it all sin to leave.
Sin. (Sinngedichte.)
Footnotes
[793:3] See Herbert, page 206.
Ὀψὲ θεοῦ μύλοι ἀλέουσι τὸ λεπτὸν ἄλευρον.—Oracula Sibylliana, liber viii. line 14.
Ὀψὲ θεῶν ἀλέουσι μύλοι, ἀλέουσι δὲ λεπτά.—Leutsch and Schneidewin: Corpus Parœmiographorum Græcorum, vol. i. p. 444.
Sextus Empiricus is the first writer who has presented the whole of the adage cited by Plutarch in his treatise "Concerning such whom God is slow to punish."
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