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What the Fathers say

2 Peter 2:9

Western Saints

Bede

The Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations, etc. He says the unjust are reserved for punishment on the day of judgment, not because they do not suffer torment for their merits even before the day of judgment, freed from the body, but because greater torments await them in judgment when, having received their body back, they will be punished, who are now tormented in spirit alone. …

Commentary on the Catholic Epistles ↗

Bonaventure

Piety avails for avoiding all evils. Whence blessed Peter says: "The Lord knows how to deliver the pious from temptation, but to reserve the impious for torment unto the day of judgment." The impious are those who do not acknowledge divine piety.

Collationes de Septem Donis, Collation 3 ↗