[61] Because, I imagine, wickedness is an evil which can never end, but which is kindled and is never able to be [27] [28] [29] [30] [31] [32] extinguished; so that the lines of the poet may well be applied to wickedness— And she is of no mortal race, But an immortal foul disgrace. Immortal, indeed, as to the life among us on earth, since with reference to the life with God it is lifeless and dead, and as some one has said, more worthless and odious than dung.