Provérbios 20
Basil of Caesarea · Comentário Patrístico (catena)
Provérbios 20:10
If there were two persons to be judged, one being given more consideration and the other less consideration, with a judge standing between both and making them equal by depriving only the one who has more than enough, the judge can be said to have failed to the extent that the adjudged party is injured. He who does not first have true justice instilled in his soul, but is corrupted by money or favors his friends or seeks vengeance against his enemies or reveres power, is unable to effect justice.… For rectitude in judgment is evidence that someone's soul is well disposed toward equity and law. Hence, it prohibits this in what follows, saying, "Large weights and small weights are abominable before God," with inequality in judgment being indicated in Proverbs under the title of weights. — HOMILY ON THE BEGINNING OF PROVERBS 9