“The good worker loves, preserves, and governs good work, and therefore, if ever human weakness strays from the way of truth by sinning, he endures with much patience, waiting for them to be converted for the better through repentance. Therefore, he makes his sun rise on the good and the evil, and sends rain on the jus…”
Rabanus Maurus, 9th c. — Commentary on Wisdom, PL 109
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25And how could any thing have endured, if it had not been thy will? or been preserved, if not called by thee?
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23But thou hast mercy upon all; for thou canst do all things, and winkest at the sins of men, because they should amend.
24For thou lovest all the things that are, and abhorrest nothing which thou hast made: for never wouldest thou have made any thing, if thou hadst hated it.
— Wisdom of Solomon 11:25 —
26But thou sparest all: for they are thine, O Lord, thou lover of souls.