 He is here warned that it is, but he defends it and insults the prophet of the Gods.This is his sin, and it is this which leads to his punishment.The terrible calamities that overtake Creon are not the result of his exalting the law of the state over the unwritten and divine law which Antigone vindicates, but are his intemperance which led him to disregard the warnings of Tiresias until it was too late.