An example of receiving what you ask for, to your own detriment, as a warning 6. Let’s now see if people ever receive something as a warning, so that they may suffer some affliction from it, and so go back to medical treatment, because they are sick. Thus the Lord said, The doctor is not needed by the healthy, but by those who are ill (Mk 2:17). So he came to a sick humanity, and he found people given over to their desires. Precisely to cause affliction, God handed them over, the apostle says, to