{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-1486","native_reference":{"book_number":90,"chapter_from":8,"chapter_to":8,"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>: He will also make your daughters his ointment-makers, etc. He will make your synagogues, or the souls of the deceived, or certainly thoughts once free from pure chastity, to favor his depraved iniquities with wicked flattery; the prophet who abhors this worst kind of ointment prays: \"But let not the oil of the sinner anoint my head\" (Psalms 140). Contrary to this is the ointment-maker of the good king, Mary Magdalene, who says: \"While the king was on his couch, my spikenard gave forth its fragrance\" (Song of Songs 1). He will also make those who serve his furnace of vices: about which the prophet testifies, \"All of them adulterers, like an oven their hearts\" (Hosea 7). Contrary to this is the furnace of heavenly love, of which those who have received the word of truth say to one another: \"Were not our hearts burning within us while He was speaking to us on the road, and explaining the Scriptures to us?\" (Luke 24). He will also make bread-makers, who call those madmen to the abominable feasts of heresies, saying: \"Eat bread in secret with pleasure: stolen waters are sweeter, and hidden bread more delightful\" (Proverbs 9:17). Concerning which bread, it is also said elsewhere: \"Sweet to a man is the bread of lies, but afterwards his mouth will be filled with gravel\" (Proverbs 20:17). Contrary to this is the bread of truth, which strengthens the heart of man. Of which knowledge, because neither flesh nor blood shall reveal, but the Father who is in heaven: rightly it is sung under the figure of a strong woman of the Church, \"She is like the ships of the merchant, bringing her bread from afar\" (Proverbs 31).<br/><i>— Commentary on Samuel</i></p><p><b>Clement of Alexandria</b>: I must now … express my disapproval of the possession of too many slaves. People resort to servants to escape work and waiting on themselves.… The Word has given a complete description of these offenders when he promised through the prophet Samuel that the people who were demanding a king would have not a kind master but one who would be an unfeeling tyrant, given over to immorality, \"who will take,\" he said, \"your daughters to make him ointments and to be his cooks and bakers,\" who will rule by law of war and not be zealous for the administration of peace.<br/><i>— The Instructor Book 3</i></p><p><b>Gregory the Dialogist</b>: 7. There follows: He will also make your daughters perfumers, and cooks, and bakers. By the name of daughters, the weak minds placed within holy Church are designated. These become the king's perfumers: because when they behold carnal rulers in the height of passing glory, they endeavor to soothe them with flatteries. The Psalmist, indeed rejecting the use of these ointments, says: Let not the oil of the sinner anoint my head (Psalms 141:5). The daughters therefore become perfumers: because when the weak fear to displease carnal rulers, they soften with blandishment the ferocity to which they are subject through fear. And it should be noted that the sons are said first to be taken by the king, and then made horsemen and centurions or makers of arms: but the daughters are not said to be taken, but simply to be made perfumers and bakers. For to be taken implies violence. The sons therefore are taken, because the strong are overthrown with difficulty. When therefore the daughters are said not to be taken but to be made perfumers, what else does this mean except that those who are weak in goodness are easily scattered by the examples of the wicked? They also become the king's cooks and bakers: because those who serve tyrants by flattering them, while they please them by showing favor, offer them food as it were. For the cooks are those who cook at the hearth what kings eat. They are therefore cooks who, through services of favor, kindle the swelling of pride in the carnal ruler's heart: so that he receives flatteries all the more boldly, inasmuch as they prepare for him, as it were, more delicate foods by the fire of aroused devotion. They also become bakers: because when they praise a reprobate life, they strengthen the carnal mind of the tyrant to practice wickedness.<br/><i>— Commentary on 1 Kings, Book 4, Chapter 2</i></p><p><b>Gregory the Dialogist</b>: What then is the meaning of what he adds: that the daughters of the Israelites would become perfumers, cooks, and bakers? But by the term \"daughters\" sometimes weakness is signified, sometimes fruitfulness. Who then are the daughters of the Israelites, if not chosen souls, prepared for the conception of the divine Word? They become the king's perfumers: because as they advance through the instruction of their preacher, they receive within themselves the abundant grace of the Holy Spirit, through which they can wholesomely heal the brokenhearted. They also become cooks: because while they are filled with the fervor of the Holy Spirit, by their example they kindle the hearts of their neighbors to love of the Creator. They become bakers, when they restore chosen souls with the nourishment of the Word of God. The daughters therefore become perfumers when they heal the wounds of sinners. Cooks, when they set ablaze hearts purged from the filth of sins toward the pursuit of good works by the example of their virtue. And they are bakers when, to those advancing through their examples, they no longer set forth examples, but bring forth words of deep knowledge; so that, fed as it were with solid food, they may act all the more strongly, inasmuch as, now spiritually instructed, they more fervently desire eternal things.<br/><i>— Commentary on 1 Kings, Book 4, Chapter 4</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"7a1062da8ef57aa80f8fcc320ea971e786fbbc7752d913fce3e5c63308387c98","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":1486,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"13bb66d9e5fef2ac9715c275f2054c378410619b337b6e1b94f67b3f69cffec8","translator":null,"work":null}