[122] for it is the nature of justice in the first place to cause rest instead of labour, being utterly indifferent to the things that are in the confines between wickedness and virtue, riches and glory, and power and honour, and all other things which are akin to these, which are the chief objects of the energies of the human race. And, in the second place, to destroy those pains which exist in accordance with our own energies; for Moses does not (as some wicked men do) say, that God is the cause of evils, but our own hands; indicating, by a figurative expression, the [79] [80] works of our hands, and the voluntary inclinations of our mind to the worser part. [cap.33] Last of all, Noah is said "to comfort us concerning our work, because of the ground which the Lord God hath cursed." [81]