{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-1255","native_reference":{"book_number":90,"chapter_from":23,"chapter_to":23,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":13,"verse_to":13},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>Bede</b>: David therefore arose, etc. Woe, however, to that soul, woe to the city, which the word of God, leaving behind, wanders here and there, uncertain where, in whose heart to settle and find rest. \"Foxes,\" he says, \"have dens, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head\" (Matthew VIII); and this is what he says elsewhere: \"Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?\" (Luke XVIII). It is certainly to be noted that these things, generally, refer to all times of the Church, to which false brethren are never lacking, but especially to the last times, during which they will abound more, and can be typically referred, whose levity and perfidy even the name of Ceila fits. For it is said of a sling, cast forth, or stirring up, or lifting itself. And indeed why the soul of a false Christian, unstable and certainly wandering, is called cast to a sling, the wise woman explains, who in the type of the Church speaks with a strong and desirable hand saying, \"But the soul of your enemies shall be whirled about in the impetus and circle of a sling\" (1 Samuel XXV). But why a believer with infidelity, stirring it up, doubtlessly rightly calls it persecution, is proved by that traitor, who, from the number of Christ's disciples, added to the number of persecutors, thus far in the Church does not cease to have heirs of his depravity. Moreover, why it is called lifting itself, those manifest who usurp the knowledge of the faith for themselves specially, and do not fear to separate from the Catholic unity.<br/><i>— Commentary on Samuel</i></p><p><b>Bede</b>: It was announced to Saul that David had fled from Ceila, etc. The enemies of the faith pretend to burden those with persecutions whom they see willingly abandoning the faith. But the adversary himself of old tires out with the more severe lashes of temptations those whom he sees strong in faith and action, or whom he sees either inert in faith, or utterly faithless or apostates, he possesses as his own quite contentedly and subject in all things, often with no, or certainly very few, temptations of wrath, pride, fornication, and envy, and other such passions.<br/><i>— Commentary on Samuel</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"4f1254fba0de50e3f6b6de8953d50669fee90873ac52b2dc1f0a303047d6a18d","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":1255,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"bc85c9402a9ae90c4d0606175423e7196a02dd048202716bb12ca8804ce90797","translator":null,"work":null}