Passage 29

In English

When there is a young child who unknowingly sets fire to a house, we think that he has done great harm and we begin to punish him. However, when burnt down the whole of , which was as prosperous as heaven itself, we not only did not punish him but we regard him as a sacred person. The reason for this is that in the first case something good was burnt down while in the second case what burnt down was the sin itself. He caused injury to the demons and the while the small boy caused injury to good people.