The Treatises of Cyprian: Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews. 171That those are more severely judged, who in this world have had more power.

Cyprian · The Ante-Nicene Fathers Volume V: The Fathers of the Third Century by Philip Schaff

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112. That those are more severely judged, who in this world have had more power.

In Solomon: "The hardest judgment shall be made on those who govern. For to a mean man mercy is granted; but the powerful shall suffer torments mightily." Also in the second Psalm: "And now, ye kings, understand; be amended, ye who judge the earth."