“No one, when reading that the wicked will marvel at the sudden appearance of an unexpected salvation, should think that for those who end the present life in sin, salvation will sooner or later be conferred on them by divine gift. It in fact calls the salvation of the righteous unexpected, because if the wicked do not…”
Fulgentius of Ruspe, 6th c. — ON THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS 2:3.1-2
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2When they see it, they shall be troubled with terrible fear, and shall be amazed at the strangeness of his salvation, so far beyond all that they looked for.
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1Then shall the righteous man stand in great boldness before the face of such as have afflicted him, and made no account of his labours.
— Wisdom of Solomon 5:2 —
3And they repenting and groaning for anguish of spirit shall say within themselves, This was he, whom we had sometimes in derision, and a proverb of reproach:
4We fools accounted his life madness, and his end to be without honour: