That in the world's eyes Heaven is justified,
and that one may say with Claudian:
Abstulit hunc tandem Rufini poena tumultum,
Absolvitque deos...
17. But even though that should not happen here, the remedy is all prepared in the other life: religion and reason itself teach us that, and we must not murmur against a respite which the supreme wisdom has thought fit to grant to men for repentance. Yet there objections multiply on another side, when one considers salvation and damnation: for it appears strange that, even in the great future of eternity, evil should have the advantage over good, under the supreme authority of him who is the sovereign good, since there will be many that are called and few that are chosen or are saved. It is true that one sees from some lines of Prudentius (Hymn. ante Somnum),
Idem tamen benignus
Ultor retundit iram,
Paucosque non piorum
Patitur perire in aevum,