{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-1049","native_reference":{"book_number":90,"chapter_from":15,"chapter_to":15,"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>: And Saul said to him: Blessed are you to the Lord, etc. Understand the voice of flocks and herds, the uncontrolled movements of the mind, and the tumultuous thoughts of arrogant hearts; for whoever neglects to subdue and repress these within himself, vainly boasts that he has fulfilled the word of the Lord, which commanded the destruction of all vices.<br/><i>— Commentary on Samuel</i></p><p><b>Gregory the Dialogist</b>: 13. The word of the Lord was that he should have destroyed Amalek. But what does it mean that he says, \"I have fulfilled the word of the Lord,\" unless that the sin of fornication, the more shameful it is perceived to be, the more carefully it is concealed by the reprobate? Because therefore those who are subject to this same vice of fornication always desire to remain hidden, in their type Saul both disdained to demolish Amalek and said to Samuel: \"I have fulfilled the word of the Lord.\" As if to say: Both in other matters I have subdued lust, and in myself I have destroyed its enticements. And because he strives to bend the mind of the great man with flattering adulation, he first said: \"Blessed are you by the Lord.\" As if to say: This indeed I have done, but I was able to do it not by my own strength, but by your merits and intercessions. But perfect men can hear their own praises, yet cannot be bent from the rigor of justice. Wherefore it is also added: (Verse 14.) And Samuel said: \"And what is this voice of flocks that resounds in my ears, and of herds, which I hear?\"<br/><i>— Commentary on 1 Kings, Book 6, Chapter 2</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"3ba90f1cd3da2223b766d62da8c0eb1a20b06be3f73456ac71113b8c45022d21","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":1049,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"a4c5fa7366e77d0e263d02a7a739aec955d0b8ceca36a542721c0e19e0762f91","translator":null,"work":null}