Bede, on Prov 16:4

“The Lord hath made all things for himself: the wicked also for the evil day.”

“The Lord has made everything for its own purpose, etc. The Lord had no other cause for creating the invisible or visible creature than His will, that He might show His goodness to the rational creature, whom He would make eternally blessed: and also the one who of his own will abandoned the good of his condition, that is, the devil and his followers, He justly condemned with severity.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.