Anastasius of Sinai — on Wis 11:20 (Questions, PL 89)

“Weight and measure govern and administer all things by the Lord. For when He had set the limit of life to one hundred and twenty years for those who lived in the time of Noah, after He saw sin increase and overflow, He did not wait for the prescribed limit, but cut it short and made it briefer, and in the hundredth year brought the flood upon all. So also to Abraham, He foretold that his offspring would be strangers, and He teaches the reason. For He says, the iniquities of the Amorites are not yet complete up to this point. They have not yet, He says, committed those sins which deserve to perish utterly; therefore I will not allow them to be handed over to you to be completely destroyed now, but I await the measure of iniquity. For our sins, which occur in time, fall under a measure, up to a certain quantity; and now our righteous Judge God inflicts punishments, to whom be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.”