Ezekiel 18:23

Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: [and] not that he should return from his ways, and live?

Ver. 23. Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die?] No, verily; for then he should do nothing but do and undo, make a world and unmake it again, since we provoke him continually; but he is longsuffering.

“ Atque dolet quoties cogitur esse ferox. ”

And not that he should return.] Had not I rather pardon than punish? Is not this last my work, my strange work Isa 28:21