| Wisdom 4:11
| He was taken away lest wickedness should alter his understanding, or deceit beguile his soul.
| Away. Like Henoch, Genesis 5:24., and Hebrews 11:5. (Calmet) --- "Bad conversations corrupt the best manners," 1 Corinthians 15:33., and Isaias 57:1. But could not God have supported the just under temptation? Undoubtedly. His judgments are unsearchable. (St. Augustine, de Praed. xiv.) (Calmet) --- The holy doctor thence proves, that those who die in a just state, might have forfeited it, if they had lived longer. God knew this possibility, and that it would not take place, and his foreknowledge agrees with man's free-will, which some, inclining to Pelagianism, would controvert. They objected to this authority: and he was therefore obliged to prove that the book of Wisdom is canonical. (Ibid.[St. Augustine, de Praed. xiv.?]) (Worthington)
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