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Medieval 1274 · Historical Christian Faith commentaries database, on Wis 3:10 (Commentary on Wisdom, Chapter 3)

Bonaventure, on Wis 3:10

Bonaventure · c. A.D. 1221–1274
Wis 3:10 · Douay-Rheims
“But the wicked shall be punished according to their own devices: who have neglected the just, and have revolted from the Lord.”
On this verse:
“But the ungodly, according to what they thought etc. Here he sets forth the reprobation of the opposite state; and first he shows that the error of the ungodly concerning their own impunity is false; second, that their opinion concerning the reward of the continent life is erroneous, there: For blessed is the barren: third, concerning the punishment of incontinence, there: But the children of adulterers etc. In the first part he touches first upon their punishment in themselves: second, the equity of the punishment, there: For wisdom and discipline etc.; third, the overflowing punishment even upon their own, there: Their wives are senseless etc. (Vers. 10.). There follows therefore: But the ungodly etc. I have rightly said that the just shall be so rewarded: but, for "yet": the ungodly, according to what they have thought, that is, by the desert of their evil thoughts, utterances, and works proceeding from their evil thoughts: shall have correction, "that is, punishment," as the Gloss says, whence it says: "When the just shall enter into rest, the ungodly shall go into eternal punishment." Who have neglected the just, in the neuter, "that is, justice"; or in the masculine, the just one, "that is, God himself," according to the Gloss, and this by omitting the good: Jeremiah 48, according to another reading: "Cursed is he who does the work of the Lord negligently"; Seneca: "Grave is the loss that comes through negligence." And they departed from the Lord, by openly committing evil; Jeremiah 2: "Know and see that it is an evil and bitter thing that you have forsaken your God"; evil, on account of the punishment of loss: bitter, on account of the punishment of sense; the Gloss says: "They depart from the Lord who cast away discipline and wisdom": and this is very evil.”

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