Hippolytus of Rome

"He destroyed their vine with hail, and their sycamines with frost." Now, just as, in consequence of an irregular mode of living, a deadly bilious humour may be formed in the inwards, which the physician by his art may bring on to be a sick-vomiting, without being himself chargeable with producing the sick humour in the man's body; for excess in diet was what produced it, while the physician's science only made it show itself; so, although it may be said that the painful retribution that falls upon those who are by choice wicked …

Fragments from Commentaries on Various Books of Scripture - On Psalm LXXVII. Or LXXVIII. ↗