-- 200. Petilianus said: "Where is the saying of the Lord Christ, Whosoever shall smite thee on the right cheek, turn to him the other also'? [2219] Where is the patience which He displayed when they spat upon His face, who Himself with His most holy s201. Augustin answered: Is it then really so, that when men smite you on the one cheek, you turn to them the other? This is not the report that your furious bands won for you by wandering everywhere throughout the whole of Africa with dreadful wickedness. I would fain have it that men should make a bargain with you, that, in accordance with the old law, you should seek but "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth," [2221] instead of bringing out cudgels in return for the words which greet your ears.

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Footnotes:

[2219] Matthew 5:39.

[2220] 2 Corinthians 11:20, 23.

[2221] Deuteronomy 19:21.