Because they are more to be confirmed and comforted, for that they be more subiect vnto persecutions, then other are. Therfore they haue nede of consolation. Yet it followeth not out of this, but that the rewards are due vnto other faithful also. For Christ doth euidently say: Iusti ful∣gebunt sicut sol in regno Dei, the righteous shal shine as the sunne in the kingdome of God.
Saint Hierome expounding this place, when he had simply intrea∣ted this sentence, did say, that many do aske, whither the vnlearned be∣ing holy, and the learned being also holy, shal haue one and the same glo∣ry. And he saith, that by the translation of Theodosion, we may answer that the one shalbe as the firmament, and the other as the starres. But other diuines do say, that both the partes of this sentence be one thing.