75. The Lord also in the Gospel rejected those coming to Him with guile, saying: “The foxes have holes,” S. Matt. viii. 20. for He bids us live in simplicity and innocency of heart. David also says: “Thou hast used deceit as a sharp razor,” Ps. lii. [li.] 2. pointing out by this the treacherous man, just as an implement of this kind is used to help adorn a man, yet often wounds him. If any one makes a show of favour and yet plans deceit after the example of the traitor, so as to give up to death him whom he ought to guard, let him be looked on in the light of that instrument which is wont to wound owing to the vice of a drunken mind and a trembling hand. Thus that man drunk with the wine of wickedness brought death on the high priest Ahimelech, 1 Sam. [1 Kings] xxii. 9. through a terrible act of treachery, because he had received the prophet with hospitality when the king, roused by the stings of envy, was following him.