{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-3978","native_reference":{"book_number":50,"chapter_from":32,"chapter_to":32,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":11,"verse_to":11},"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>Ambrose of Milan</b>: Finally, listen to Moses saying: He spread his wings and took them, and carried them on his shoulders (Deuteronomy 32:11): just as an eagle carries its offspring, which it is accustomed to examine; in order to hold and nurture those who have the true nature of birth, and to observe the grace of incorruptible nature; or to reject those in whom it has detected the weakness of a degenerate origin at a tender age.<br/><i>— Interrogation of Job and David, Chapter V</i></p><p><b>Jerome</b>: Like an eagle, the Lord spreads his wings over us, his nestlings. There the Lord is compared with the eagle guarding its young. The simile therefore is appropriate that God protects us as a father and as a hen guarding her chicks lest they be snatched away by a hawk. Nevertheless a different interpretation is also permissible. \"With his pinions he will cover you\": he will be lifted up on the cross; he will stretch forth his hands to shelter us. \"And under his wings you shall take refuge.\"<br/><i>— HOMILIES ON THE Psalms 20</i></p><p><b>Jerome</b>: The song in Deuteronomy says that he bore the people of Israel upon his shoulders and like the eagle guarded them. This same versicle may be interpreted also of the Savior because on the cross he gave us the shelter of his wings. \"Under his wings you shall take refuge.\" \"All the day long I stretched out my hand to a people unbelieving and contradicting.\" The hands of the Lord lifted up to heaven were not begging for help but were sheltering us, his miserable creatures.<br/><i>— Homily 68</i></p><p><b>Paterius</b>: The Lord protects us, his little ones. He nourishes us and restores us—not in a heavy and burdensome way but with gentle and kind protection. He shows his mercies toward us, as if extending his wings over us as a bird does.<br/><i>— EXPOSITION OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT, Deuteronomy 20</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"9546ae0ca926caa6e700b538435e02bce42683fdb742a7c223d29972b01c3d95","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":3978,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"616210b2477f8bf34d74280eff8127b9a3dba15d9c02316eff47a88f1c850baa","translator":null,"work":null}