“Temporal death and the affliction of this present life have brought perpetual prosperity as a reward to the saints of God, because their hope was unfailing and their solid faith endured to the end. For God chastised them with various temptations, and through the endurance of patience proved them worthy of the eternal…”
Rabanus Maurus, 9th c. — Commentary on Wisdom, PL 109
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4For though they be punished in the sight of men, yet is their hope full of immortality.
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2In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die: and their departure is taken for misery,
3And their going from us to be utter destruction: but they are in peace.
— Wisdom of Solomon 3:4 —
5And having been a little chastised, they shall be greatly rewarded: for God proved them, and found them worthy for himself.
6As gold in the furnace hath he tried them, and received them as a burnt offering.