lost what grace and nature had given to you, since it is equally sorrowful to have lost what one used to have as it is painful not to have had it at all. I call you a son, so that you may understand that what you are suffering is the result of your sentence, and not of wrath. I call you a son, in order for my patience to last for me and your punishment to last for you.” 3. But this one, brothers, knows that he is not a son since he confesses and considers himself to blame for what he has lost from