Книга Премудрости Соломона, Глава 4, стих 14. Толкования стиха

GRACE IS GIVEN THROUGH FAITH. PSEUDO-AUGUSTINE: Similarly, in the book of Wisdom it says, “Because the grace of God is in his saints.” It is said as a general rule that no one has ever been or is holy without the grace of God. But so this grace might be in the saints, to confirm them, they receive it freely through the faith that comes from God. They did not have it prior to faith. As David says, “You will save them without price.” HYPOMNESTICON 3.12.27.

Что же касается продолжительности жизни праведника и неправедника, то ен нельзя поставлять в числе дет. Часто праведник умирает очень рано, чтобы не испортиться среди нечестивых (7—14). Нечестивые обыкновенно не понимают этой цели ранней смерти праведных и осуждают их (15—18); но когда их самих постигнет лютая смерть (19. 20), когда они предстанут на страшный суд и увидят того самого праведника во славе, котораго они осмеивали здесь: тогда-то они узнают свое заблуждение (5, 1—14); тогда-то Господь, наградивший праведников вечною жизнию и царским благолепием, вместе с ними, вооружится на бтмщепие нечестивым (15—24). 

A GOOD LIFE IS BETTER THAN A LONG LIFE. FULGENTIUS OF RUSPE: “His soul in fact was pleasing to God, because he hastened to take him away from iniquity.” Precisely with these words the sacred Scripture teaches us that in this world, it is not a long life that matters but a good life. To know the merits, as much as we can, of a deceased person, you must closely observe not how long he lived but how he lived. In fact, just as in a wicked life, the longer one lives the more punishments are multiplied for the one who lives in sin, so in a good life, though it is over in a brief period of time, a great, unending glory is gained for the one who lives well. A wicked life, then, leads to increasing ill temper in bitter, immature old people, whereas a good life leads young people, who die mature, to the kingdom of God. LETTERS 2.7.4.