The underlying disaccord between the three Allies reflected itself in the demeanour of their representatives at Athens.
It is important to bear this disaccord in mind in order to understand what went before and what comes hereafter: for, though for the most part latent, it was always present; and if it did not avert, it retarded the climax.
Just as a man's will that adheres to God is a right rule, to disaccord with which is a sin, so too a man's will that is opposed to God is a perverse rule, to disaccord with which is good.
In this way it is sinful to desire honor in disaccord with the order of reason.
For to disaccord with man is to sever oneself from another's will.
Wherefore it is a sin todisaccord with such a will, because by that very fact one disaccords with the Divine rule.
It is not every circumstance that places the moral action in the species of good or evil; since not every circumstance implies accord or disaccord with reason.
Eternal Law: and consequently its malice consists in its being in disaccord with the Eternal Law.
For an action is said to be evil in its species, not because it has no object at all; but because it has an object in disaccord with reason, for instance, to appropriate another's property.
For man's good or evil is something in reference to reason: wherefore the passions, considered in themselves, are referable both to good and evil, for as much as they may accord or disaccord with reason.
By the employment of this definite and uniform test, results were obtained, of special value indeed, but in strongdisaccord with those given by less exclusive determinations.
But they are gradually losing the vague and intangible character which long clung to them; and the improved definition of their outlines has not, so far, brought them into disaccord with truth.
The conjecture "in a dream" is not unlikely, nor is it in disaccord with other events in the annals of the Pharaohs and the Sargonidae of Assyria.
All that can be said is that these deeds of wholesale severity were not in disaccord with the conscience even of many of the best Old Testament saints.
