Bonaventure — on Wis 12:19 (Commentary on Wisdom, Chapter 12)

“(Verse 19). For you have taught your people: but others are not taught, whence Sirach twenty-one: "He who is not wise in good will not be instructed"; through such works, namely of justice and mercy together. Because it is necessary to be just, because you are just, and humane, that is, gentle, because man is by nature a gentle animal: and this, because you are merciful, not only just; whence in the Psalm: "Mercy and judgment I will sing to you, O Lord"; likewise: "The Lord is merciful and compassionate and just." And if the Lord, therefore also the servant; whence Matthew eighteen: "Should you not also have had mercy on your fellow servant, just as I also had mercy on you?" Ecclesiastes seven: "Do not be excessively just," namely to such a degree that you exclude mercy from your justice: for the Samaritan poured upon the wounded man not only wine, but also oil together. And you have made your children of good hope, that is, concerning the obtaining of pardon, your faithful ones, who are your children: whence John one: "He gave them the power to become children of God, to those who believe in his name." This is the good hope, concerning which in the Psalm: "Hope in him, all you assembly of the people"; likewise: "In God my heart has hoped, and I have been helped"; First Peter one: "Hope in the grace that is offered to you." Because judging, that is, punishing sinners, you give a place of repentance amid sins, that is, to those remaining in sins, namely by waiting for them unto repentance; Isaiah thirty: "Therefore the Lord waits, that he may have mercy on you." The place of repentance is this world: for after departure from this world there remains no place of repentance: on account of which Ecclesiastes eleven: "Wherever the tree falls, whether to the south or to the north, there it shall be." Chrysostom: "Then there will be no place of repentance, nor time for making satisfaction, nor power of restitution"; therefore Ecclesiastes nine: "Whatever your hand is able to do, work at it earnestly, because neither work nor reason nor knowledge nor wisdom will be in the netherworld, to which you hasten."”