Rabanus Maurus, on Wis 4:10

“He pleased God and was beloved, and living among sinners he was translated.”

“God does not therefore take a man whom He loves out of this world because He cannot keep him, living among sinners, free from sin; He who, sending His disciples as lambs among wolves, praised them to the Father, saying: I do not pray that You take them out of the world, but that You keep them from evil (Jn. 17:15); but rather, so that He may observe the order of His judgment: those whom He foreknew and predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, He calls, justifies, magnifies, and glorifies; but the rest, on account of their iniquity, He condemns by His just judgment. Concerning this, the Apostle Peter says: God knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation, but to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment (2 Peter 2:9).”

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