means of which I might engage in more shameful sports as an adult. Or did the man, by whom I used to be beaten, himself do anything different? If he were overcome in some petty dispute with one of his learned associates, he was more tortured by anger and jealousy than I, when I was overcome in a game of ball by one of my playmates. (16) Yet, I did sin, O Lord my God, Orderer and Creator of all natural things, but of sins the Orderer only48—O Lord my God, I did sin in acting against the