Speculum amatorum mundi

but according to the doctors, regarding the multitude of the damned, few are spoken of, which we indeed read is well figured in the sons of Israel who, in such a great multitude, namely about six hundred thousand, were led out of Egypt through the Red Sea into the desert by Moses, to whom all was promised the land of promise, by which is signified the kingdom of heaven. By the Israelite people, however, the Christian people is designated, who now truly are the people of God. The history is clear through the course of the book of Exodus. Behold, all that multitude of the Israelite people, to whom, as is stated, the land of promise was promised to all, perished in the desert due to their sins, except for two, namely Caleb and Joshua, who possessed it with those who had been born in the desert during the forty years after the crossing of the Red Sea, as is read in the book of Joshua. Therefore, it is to be feared the more that just as the figure is, so is the figured. Between the good and the bad, this is the difference: the bad want to have the feast before the vigil, wanting to rejoice temporally in this world, and therefore in the future world they will keep the vigil for the feast that they had here, because they will weep eternally. Which blessed Gregory well hints at in the eleventh homily upon that word which is written in Matthew 13:

There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Thus saying:

Present joys are followed by perpetual laments. Here, brothers, flee vain joy, if you fear to weep and mourn there. For no one can rejoice here with the world and reign there with God.

This Gregory. There are also others who would want to come from feast to feast; this is from the joy of the present life to the joys of eternal happiness. To whom blessed Jerome speaks:

It is too difficult, indeed impossible, that one should enjoy present goods and eternal ones, that one should pass from delights to delights, that here one should fill the belly and there the mind, so that in both worlds one is first and in both appears glorious.