Then men were like oak-trees.

And God's judgment will also be in accordance with their strength.

Their bodies will be weighed, and angels will measure their blood, and the angels of God will see that the weight of the sins does not exceed the weight of the body and the blood.

Do you understand?
God will not condemn the wolf for devouring a sheep, but if a miserable rat should be guilty of the sheep's death, God will condemn the rat!" "How can a man tell how God will judge man ?" asked Foma, thoughtfully.
"A visible trial is necessary." "Why a visible trial ?" "That people might understand." "Who, but the Lord, is my judge ?" Foma glanced at the old man and lowering his head, became silent.
He again recalled the fugitive convict, who was killed and burnt by Shchurov, and again he believed that it really was so.

And the women--his wives and his mistresses--had surely been hastened toward their graves by this old man's caresses; he had crushed them with his bony chest, drunk the sap of their life with these thick lips of his which were scarlet yet from the clotted blood of the women, who died in the embraces of his long sinewy arms.