The new formula, in consequence, was that man's happiness and misery come from God as the evidence of his favor or disfavor; that one thing supremely pleases God, moral
goodness, and one thing supremely he hates, moral evil; that
whenever men are fortunate they must have been virtuous and
whenever they are wretched they must have transgressed; that all
human suffering is thus punishment for sin — «Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?»