pro cogitationibus autem insensatis iniquitates illorum quod quidam errantes colebant mutos serpentes et bestias supervacuas inmisisti illis multitudinem mutorum animalium in vindictam

so that they might learn that the agents of one’s sin are the instruments of one’s punishment.

so that they might learn that one is punished by the very things by which one sins.

and taught them that punishment for sin takes the same form as the sin itself.

(so) that they should know, that by what things a man sinneth, he is tormented also by these things. [that they should know, for by those things that a man sinneth, by those things also he shall be tormented.]

that they might learn that one is punished by the very things by which he sins.

so that they might learn that one is punished by the very things by which one sins.

so that they might learn that one is punished by the very things by which one sins.

In this way they learned that people are punished by the very same things by which they sin.

that they might recognize that one is punished by the very things through which one sins.

that they might learn that one is punished by the very things by which he sins.

so that they might learn that one is punished by the very things by which one sins.