Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume V/Cyprian/The Treatises of Cyprian/Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews/Book III/Part 112

112. That those are more severely judged, who in this world have had more power.

In Solomon: &#8220;The hardest judgment shall be made on those who govern. For to a mean man mercy is granted; but the powerful shall suffer torments mightily.&#8221; Also in the second Psalm: &#8220;And now, ye kings, understand; be amended, ye who judge the earth.&#8221;