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Catena Aurea · Matthäusevangelium 25
Mt 25, 46English original
And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
Observe that whereas He put first the invitation, Come, ye blessed, and after that, Depart, ye cursed, because it is the property of a merciful God to record the good deeds of the good, before the bad deeds of the bad; He now reverses the order, describing first the punishment of the wicked, and then the life of the good, that the terrors of the one may deter us from evil, and the honour of the other incite us to good.