The Lord delayeth not his promise, as some imagine, but dealeth patiently for your sake, not willing that any should perish, but that all should return to penance.
Glossa Ordinaria
The Lord does not delay. And because he sees all things, you can believe that the Lord does not delay in fulfilling his promises, because it is not yet the time in which he will fulfil the things to be fulfilled. But he defers for this reason, that he may first complete the sum of the elect which he foresaw; whence in the Apocalypse: And it was said to them that they should rest yet a little time, till their fellow servants be completed.
English is machine-translated from the public-domain Latin (Glossa Ordinaria, Migne, Patrologia Latina 113-114, 1852; digital text from Corpus Corporum, mlat.uzh.ch), since no public-domain English translation exists. It is not a scholarly translation. Please report errors.