“Whoever examines the reading of the Old Testament carefully, easily recognizes how God frequently chastised the Israelites, who sinned often, with deserved punishments, and again, when they repented, comforted them with timely comfort. However, as for foreigners, that is, the Egyptians and the Canaanites, judging them…”
Rabanus Maurus, 9th c. — Commentary on Wisdom, PL 109
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10For these thou didst admonish and try, as a father: but the other, as a severe king, thou didst condemn and punish.
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8Declaring by that thirst then how thou hadst punished their adversaries.
9For when they were tried albeit but in mercy chastised, they knew how the ungodly were judged in wrath and tormented, thirsting in another manner than the just.
— Wisdom of Solomon 11:10 —
11Whether they were absent or present, they were vexed alike.
12For a double grief came upon them, and a groaning for the remembrance of things past.