Wis 16:29

“No one has done more so that we might be good, great and thankful in everything than God who created us. Thus he often lavishes blessings on us beyond our will, blessings that we are for the most part unaware of. If this surprises you, let me point out that this happened, not just to anyone, but to blessed Paul. That blessed one, in fact, being in many dangers and trials, often begged God that temptations would depart from him. God nevertheless did not respond to his request, except to the extent that it was advantageous for him, and to show this he said, "My grace is enough for you. Indeed, my power is fully manifested in weakness." Thus, before telling him the reason why, he pours out blessings without Paul wanting or knowing about it. What is so unusual, then, if he commands us to be grateful in return for such tender care? So let us obey him, having this attitude always. In fact, nothing ruined the Jews more than their ingratitude, and this behavior alone brought on all those misfortunes, one after the other. Indeed, even prior to those misfortunes, it ruined and corrupted their souls. "The hope of the ingrate is like winter frost," it says. It dulls the soul and makes it die, just like the body. This is born of arrogance and from believing oneself to be deserving of something. The contrite person, however, will give thanks to God not only for blessings but also for what seems to be against him, and, when he suffers, he will not think himself to have suffered unjustly. We too, then, the more we embrace virtue, the more we will humble ourselves, because virtue consists above all in this.”

“For the hopes of the people, that is, the Jews' hope which they now have for the coming of their king, namely the Antichrist, melts away like winter ice, that is, it withers cold in unbelief without the fruit of righteousness, and will perish like surplus water, when all the tradition of their doctrine is deemed of no use; for our Savior, speaking to the apostles, says to us: Let them alone, they are blind leaders of the blind. Every plant which my heavenly Father has not planted shall be rooted up (Matt. 15:13-14).”

“For the hope of the ungrateful etc. Thus I said that it wasted away by the heat of the sun, and this as a sign of this, because the hope of the ungrateful will waste away etc. Or thus: I rightly said that it is necessary to worship at the rising of the light etc. for the reception of the aforesaid benefit, and this to avoid ingratitude, which is greatly harmful. For the hope of the ungrateful, namely of any impious person, or specifically "of the Jewish people," according to the Gloss, like winter ice: The Gloss: "Constricted by the cold of unbelief," according to that passage of Ecclesiasticus forty-three: "The cold north wind has blown, and ice has frozen from the water"; will waste away, that is, will be liquefied, that is, will be dissolved by the heat of the sun of justice on the day of judgment, whether particular or universal: in the Psalm: "As wax melts before the face of fire, so let sinners perish before the face of God." It will waste away, I say, as regards the punishment of loss, namely by losing all goods, whatsoever he had or hoped for, namely the goods of grace and glory; and will perish utterly, that is, will perish in a twofold manner, that is, will suffer torment in body and soul, and this as regards the punishment of sense. It will perish utterly, I say, like superfluous water, that is, useless water, which is poured out or cast upon the ground: so also the ungrateful one, as useless, will be cast into hell, according to that passage of Matthew twenty-five: "Cast the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness." The hope of the ungrateful therefore will waste away and perish utterly etc.; whence above in chapter five: "The hope of the impious is like down which is carried away by the wind"; likewise Bernard: "Ingratitude is a scorching wind, drying up the fountain of piety, the dew of mercy, the streams of grace."”