{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-6889","native_reference":{"book_number":350,"chapter_from":7,"chapter_to":7,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":5,"verse_to":5},"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>Jerome</b>: \"The day of our king: the princes began to rage from wine: he stretched out his hand with the mockers.\" LXX: \"The days of your kings. The princes began to rave from wine: he stretched out his hand with pestilences.\" A dark place and in need of the attentive reader's sense, so that we may first understand the history. Israel and the city of Samaria rested for a little while, with the passion of error received into itself, until the whole mass became like leaven, and grew and burst forth, and the swelling people cried out at the gates of King Jeroboam, and said: This is the day of our king Jeroboam, this is the festive day that our emperor has appointed for us; this we celebrate, this we sing, in this we exult and play, in this we worship the golden calves. The people are shouting, the leaders are not angry, as some may think; but they themselves began to rage from the wine, and lose the understanding of their minds, forget God, and push into the idols' woods. When the king saw this, he cried out to the people and said, \"This day belongs to our king,\" and the leaders, like drunk and fanatical people, not knowing what they were saying, extended their hands to the jesters, deceiving those who flattered him with empty praises. We have spoken boldly rather than knowingly according to the Hebrew tradition, leaving the authors of our words to faith. Now let us move on to spiritual understanding: unhappy peoples, who are seduced by the devil king and his princes, or who have taken other solemnities from the prince of heresy and his leaders, leaving the Church and trampling on the truth of faith, are wont to cry out and say: This is the day of our king: for example, Valentinius, Marcion, Arius, and Eunomius. Those who are put in charge of them, upon hearing this (advice) must not be glad with wine (lest) it be thought as a minor sin; but they act like mad men because of wine, of which Moses wrote in the Song of Deuteronomy: \"The wine of their dragons, and the fury of the unhealable asps\" (Deut. 32:33): for they eat the food of wickedness and are intoxicated with the wine of evil. Concerning this, the Apostle says: \"Be not drunk with wine, wherein is luxury\" (Ephesians 5:18). And in Proverbs, we read: \"Princes should not drink wine: lest they forget wisdom, and not be able to judge what is right\" (Prov. XXXI, 5). Hence, with deceived peoples and leaders, a prince stretches out his hand, be they deceivers or pests, such as the sons of Eli, about whom we read in the first Psalm: \"He did not sit in the seat of pestilence\" (Ps. I, 1); of whom it is said: \"Cast out the pestilent one from your council, and contention will go out with him\" (Prov. XXII, 10): with their hearts inflamed, so that they may collide with whom they have deceived. For according to the seventy this points to \"cataracts,\" which do not lift upwards, but drag downwards.<br/><i>— Commentary on Hosea 7:5-7</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"6084e42843bdccdbd611b9c2fe17f1946a427489bc522e3c6d666a1fc6123a29","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":6889,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"6a81dcca2b42ca1b2c895af6be86d2a543d4a09ec0aa40abc909c615a239d71d","translator":null,"work":null}