“Such, then, is the first supposition of true knowledge, that things in the world happen by chance. The second is that "on account of the subterfuges you have placed before them" prodigious success, worldly profits and an abundance of riches. Otherwise, they might plead by way of excuse that they had been less devout b…”
Ambrose of Milan, 4th c. — Interrogation of Job and David, Book 3, Chapter VII
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18Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.
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16When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;
17Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.
— Psalms 73:18 —
19How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
20As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.