Storia do Mogor 357.7

357.7

Gentlemen, I pray you to join me here in making a reflection. The infamous old men who accused the chaste Susannah of having committed adultery were triumphant until she was led to the place of execution (Dan. xiii.). But their joy was of no long duration, because God, who cannot endure detraction and calumny, as the Scripture saith, ' Detractores, Deo odibiles ' (Vulgate, Rom. i. 30), raised up the Prophet Daniel, who laid bare the deceit, and caused the culprits to be condemned. The same thing, gentlemen, happened, as it were, in our case, but in a still clearer shape ; since God, who is the protector of oppressed innocence, took our cause visibly in hand. He has willed that those who made us out to be disobedient should be our justifiers, and that their manifest contradictions should be demonstrated. This is how it happened.