Bede, on Prov 18:3

“The wicked man when he is come into the depth of sins, contemneth: but ignominy and reproach follow him.”

“The impious man, when he has come into the depth of sins, despises, etc. He who, being wrapped in the long darkness of sins, despairs of the light, already out of desperation, loosens the reins for himself to sin everywhere. But such a one by no means escapes the reproach of future damnation, whom the memory of divine fear did not restrain from the practice of his iniquity.”

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