No One Can Know . . .

. . . things such as life, death, sickness, health, affluence, poverty, loss of limbs, of wives, chidren or possessions. In all these it is impossible to discern between the righteous and the unrighteous before the last judgment. . . . It is because of [man's] foolish desires that he is compared with the senseless beasts and that he ends up becoming like them.

--Evagrius of Pontus, Commentary on Ecclesiastes