time, as though they could accomplish with time the burying of the living in graves. You have come ahead of time to torture us. It is their premature cruelty that cuts off time, that anticipates death, that buries the living; and this cruelty is what complains about time, as if it ought to have time, and not to be punished as soon as it has arisen. The hardened wickedness of this world disputes about time. The wicked have little patience, and the good have a revenge that is slow in coming. What is