For a just man falls seven times, and rises up again: but the wicked shall fall by calamity.
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
“The just falls seven times and rises again, but the wicked shall be weakened in evils.” When evils befall the wicked, they are weakened by them. When evils befall the righteous, “the Lord strengthens all that are falling” … “and lifts up all those that have been cast down”: all, that is, who belong to him, for “God resists the proud.”