“For the persecutors of the Church of Christ, as we have said, believed that the end of the martyrs was destruction, and therefore they despised the steadfastness of their faith. But the Lord will mock them, when He shows them that what they hoped would benefit them has completely harmed them; for when they wished to d…”
Rabanus Maurus, 9th c. — Commentary on Wisdom, PL 109
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19For he shall rend them, and cast them down headlong, that they shall be speechless; and he shall shake them from the foundation; and they shall be utterly laid waste, and be in sorrow; and their memorial shall perish.
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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.
— Wisdom of Solomon 4:19 —
20And when they cast up the accounts of their sins, they shall come with fear: and their own iniquities shall convince them to their face.