Oft I think the ancients were wiser than we. They did not put the guilty to the sword out of simple retribution, but to commend their spirits into the hands of whatever power there is or they believed might be higher and deeper than mortal wisdom. By removing the guilty from the world, they blocked whatever future harm such men might cause, yes . . . but more than that, they did so acknowledging the limitations of their own human power to make right whatever wrong the guilty had done in life.
