2 Maccabees 6:13-15

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹³ For it is a token of great goodness when sinners are not suffered to go on in their ways for a long time, but are presently punished.

¹⁴ For, not as with other nations (whom the Lord patiently expecteth, that when the day of judgment shall come, he may punish them in the fulness of their sins:)

¹⁵ Doth he also deal with us, so as to suffer our sins to come to their height, and then take vengeance on us.