Moreover, it would be a more unworthy course for God to spare the evil-doer than to punish him, especially in the most good and holy God, who is not otherwise fully good than as the enemy of evil, and that to such a degree as to display His love of good by the hatred of evil, and to fulfil His defence of the former by the extirpation of the latter.

Tertullian. 1885. “The Five Books against Marcion.” In Latin Christianity: Its Founder, Tertullian, edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe, translated by Peter Holmes, 3:292. The Ante-Nicene Fathers. Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Company.

“And thou shalt call his name Jesus; for He shall save His people from their sins.” – Matthew 1:21