Isaiah

E secondo le novelle che sentire potemmo, niuna parte fu, in cui vivente in continenza si riserbasse, campati dal divino furore, stimando la mano di Dio essere stanca. Ma secondo il profeta Isaia, non è abbreviato il furore d’Iddio, nè la sua mano stanca, ma molto si compiace nella sua misericordia, e però lavora sostenendo, per ritrarre i peccatori a conversione e penitenzia, e punisce temperatamente.

From the news we could hear, there was no place where people restrained themselves and lived chastely. Having escaped God’s fury, they thought the hand of God was tired. But as the prophet Isaiah says, God’s fury is not shortened, nor is his hand tired. He delights greatly in his mercy, and so he holds back, to draw sinners to turn to him and repent, and he punishes in moderation.