Original Douay–Rheims AnnotationsHebrews 12

He scourgeth.

^◦ By this we prove that God often punisheth the sins even of his loving children, though not with eternal damnation, yet with temporal chastisement and correction: & that he doth not always together with the remission of deadly sins & eternal punishment, exempt the offender received to his grace, from all fatherly correction either in this life or in the next. Neither have the Heretics of this time any reason or scripture in the world, why they should take away God's chastisement of his children in the next life, more than in this world.

• ◦ Temporal punishment after remission of sins, either here, or in Purgatory.

He found not.

It is not meant, that Esau could not find remission of his sin at God's hand: but that, having once sold and yielded up the right of his first-birth to his younger brother, it was too late to be sorry for his unadvised bargain.