“Just as he previously criticized the lead heretics and their schismatic followers, so now he praises the Catholics and their disciples, whose faith is pure, and whose doctrine is simple and eternal; therefore, they are worthy of remembrance, because their generation is approved by the Lord and honorably accepted among…”
Rabanus Maurus, 9th c. — Commentary on Wisdom, PL 109
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2When it is present, men take example at it; and when it is gone, they desire it: it weareth a crown, and triumpheth for ever, having gotten the victory, striving for undefiled rewards.
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1Better it is to have no children, and to have virtue: for the memorial thereof is immortal: because it is known with God, and with men.
— Wisdom of Solomon 4:2 —
3But the multiplying brood of the ungodly shall not thrive, nor take deep rooting from bastard slips, nor lay any fast foundation.
4For though they flourish in branches for a time; yet standing not last, they shall be shaken with the wind, and through the force of winds they shall be rooted out.