was to be a training for the good in the age to come.18 Therefore, God rightly distinguished two ages for our life. Surely he made this age for us as one suitable for our being trained in it and for the possibility of our learning by rightly distinguishing what is good and by accepting with a steadfast mind the desire for virtue and the hatred of sin. But the age to come or the life that will be when this has been accomplished is what he will provide for us—something we were by no means sufficient