{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-4381","native_reference":{"book_number":190,"chapter_from":2,"chapter_to":2,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":10,"verse_to":10},"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>Rabanus Maurus</b>: Indeed the church of the nations, being instructed with the precepts of the holy teachers, did not want to disclose the place of its homeland and people, because, after being purified through baptism from any corruption of sin or defilement of idolatry, it is no longer able to bear the shame of its former impiety. And the Lord taught [the church] through the prophet by saying, \"Hear, O daughter, consider and incline your ear; forget your people and your father's house, because the king desired your beauty, as he is also the Lord your God.\"<br/><i>— EXPLANATION ON THE BOOK OF Esther 3</i></p><p><b>Rabanus Maurus</b>: That is, the Church of the nations, which was instructed in the precepts of the sacred teachers, does not want to betray the place of her country and people because now that she has been cleansed through baptism of all the pollution born of sin and the filth of idolatry, she can no longer endure in any form the shame of her original impiety. Moreover, the Lord is also commanding her through his prophet, when he says: \"Listen daughter, and see, and lend your ear, and forget your people and your father's home, because the king has desired your beauty, because he is the Lord your God\" (Psalms 45).<br/><i>— Commentary on Esther</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"9d7d84f3a2c24d8801e7f50906568edb4978eca617e5bfce1489d35a4d47d0b6","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":4381,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"91354ba2bb319f9274a3e4733cd932cfafb98f6e1bc48e7445abbfc1d7b9c424","translator":null,"work":null}