{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-4432","native_reference":{"book_number":190,"chapter_from":9,"chapter_to":9,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":24,"verse_to":24},"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>: For wicked men often find that their desires are fulfilled in ways they had not expected to happen; and they are caught in the same traps they set to ensnare others, as the Scripture shows when it says: \"The wicked are caught in their traps; and whoever digs a pit falls into it\" (Proverbs 26). Hence Haman, who prefigures the enemies of the Church, was likewise forced to suffer the death he had planned for Mordecai. For the lot cast into an urn symbolizes the disposition of each and every thing in the mind of man, whose outcomes depend even so upon the judgment of God. Hence we are told by Solomon: \"Lots are cast in the lap, but they are tempered by the Lord. For his way is not in the power of man; rather it belongs not to one who wills, or one who runs, but to God who grants mercy. For all things obey at his nod, and he does whatever he wishes in Heaven and on earth, on the sea and in all the depths\" (Proverbs 16).<br/><i>— Commentary on Esther</i></p><p><b>Rabanus Maurus</b>: Very often people's evil schemes turn out differently than they had hoped and the trap they had placed to capture others ensnares them, as the Scripture confirms, \"The wicked are ensnared in their traps. And whoever digs a pit will fall into it.\" Therefore also Haman, who prefigures the enemies of the church, was obligated to suffer the death that he had prepared for Mordecai. The lot cast into the urn represents the machinations of the human mind; but the result of such machinations entirely depends on divine judgment. Therefore it is said through Solomon, \"The lot is cast into the lap, but the decision is the Lord's alone.\"<br/><i>— EXPLANATION ON THE BOOK OF Esther 13</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"69d8f6942a347bcb3f860716d8f153fb71a68eb8cd7fd8409bd27ac9e62fb3d9","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":4432,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"ab02ff922ce7aa2cad8cd7c8b07d16a1951b35a38257363f3311e563cdcbb82a","translator":null,"work":null}