Wisdom of Solomon 4:16
“It is clear indeed that the martyrs of Christ will be judges of their persecutors after death, just as in the Apocalypse, in the condemnation of Babylon, the divine voice shows, saying: Come out of her, my people, so that you do not partake in her sins, and so that you do not receive of her plagues, for her sins have…”
16Thus the righteous that is dead shall condemn the ungodly which are living; and youth that is soon perfected the many years and old age of the unrighteous.
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14For his soul pleased the Lord: therefore hasted he to take him away from among the wicked.
15This the people saw, and understood it not, neither laid they up this in their minds, That his grace and mercy is with his saints, and that he hath respect unto his chosen.
— Wisdom of Solomon 4:16 —
17For they shall see the end of the wise, and shall not understand what God in his counsel hath decreed of him, and to what end the Lord hath set him in safety.
18They shall see him, and despise him; but God shall laugh them to scorn: and they shall hereafter be a vile carcase, and a reproach among the dead for evermore.