Here
you have the true reason why revenge or vengeance is not allowed to man: it is
because vengeance can only work in the evil or disordered properties of fallen
nature. But man, being himself a part of fallen nature and subject to its
disordered properties, is not allowed to work with them, because it would be
stirring up evil in himself, and that is his sin of wrath or revenge. God
therefore reserves all vengeance to Himself, not because wrathful revenge is a
temper or quality that can have any place in the holy Deity, but because the
holy supernatural Deity, being free from all the properties of nature, whence
partial love and hatred spring, and being in Himself nothing but an infinity of
love, wisdom, and goodness, He alone knows how to overrule the disorders of
nature, and so to repay evil with evil, that the highest good may be promoted by
it. - William Law
All
the ends of human happiness are secured without revenge, for without it we are
permitted to restore ourselves; and therefore it is against natural reason to do
an evil that no way co-operates the proper and perfective end of human nature.
And he is a miserable person, whose good is the evil of his neighbor; and he
that revenges in many cases does worse than he that did the injury; in all cases
as bad. - Jeremy Taylor
Here
you have the true reason why revenge or vengeance is not allowed to man: it is
because vengeance can only work in the evil or disordered properties of fallen
nature. But man, being himself a part of fallen nature and subject to its
disordered properties, is not allowed to work with them, because it would be
stirring up evil in himself, and that is his sin of wrath or revenge. God
therefore reserves all vengeance to Himself, not because wrathful revenge is a
temper or quality that can have any place in the holy Deity, but because the
holy supernatural Deity, being free from all the properties of nature, whence
partial love and hatred spring, and being in Himself nothing but an infinity of
love, wisdom, and goodness, He alone knows how to overrule the disorders of
nature, and so to repay evil with evil, that the highest good may be promoted by
it. - William Law
All
the ends of human happiness are secured without revenge, for without it we are
permitted to restore ourselves; and therefore it is against natural reason to do
an evil that no way co-operates the proper and perfective end of human nature.
And he is a miserable person, whose good is the evil of his neighbor; and he
that revenges in many cases does worse than he that did the injury; in all cases
as bad. - Jeremy Taylor