pœna habet aliquid damnosum quod infligitur ob peccatum, translation?

[NaphtaliPress]

Google is needlessly complicating this; any stabs at a translation?
Mr. Seaman cited Camero, That pœna habet aliquid damnosum quod infligitur ob peccatum, that pœna habet rationem medii to the children of God, but rationem finis to the wicked.

 

[greenbaggins]

Chris, I would go with "punishment has something harmful which is inflicted because of sins," (loosely translated "punishment hurts") that "punishment has the meaning of a means (to an end)" to the children of God, but "the meaning of the end" to the wicked. The point appears to be that the hurt in punishment has a different meaning for the children of God versus the wicked, a transitional meaning for the Christian, and a terminal meaning for the wicked. But they both have meaning. Charles is probably our best Latinist, so he can fine-tune that if necessary.

 

[MyCrows]

"Mr. Seaman cited Camero, that punishment has something harmful that is inflicted for a sin, that punishment has the nature of a means to the children of God, but the nature of an end to the wicked."

 

[Phil D.]

Maybe not a huge difference, but in Cameron (and Moscovius) the actual citation is poena habet est aliquid damnosum... which would be, punishment is something harmful that is inflicted on account of sin.

 

[Charles Johnson]

Chris, I would go with "punishment has something harmful which is inflicted because of sins," (loosely translated "punishment hurts") that "punishment has the meaning of a means (to an end)" to the children of God, but "the meaning of the end" to the wicked. The point appears to be that the hurt in punishment has a different meaning for the children of God versus the wicked, a transitional meaning for the Christian, and a terminal meaning for the wicked. But they both have meaning. Charles is probably our best Latinist, so he can fine-tune that if necessary.

This is mostly correct. The only change I'd suggest is to translate "rationem" as "nature." "punishment has the nature of a means..." "punishment has the nature of an end."