Толкование Книга Премудрости Соломона, Глава 19: Рабан Мавр архиепископ
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AN IMAGE OF BAPTISM. RABANUS MAURUS: The Red Sea represents the sacrament of baptism, in which the faithful are saved and the powers that oppose them are drowned. ON ECCLESIASTICUS 3.17.
CONTINUOUS PRAISE. RABANUS MAURUS: It is fitting that we, too, give thanks at all times to our Creator for our liberation, saying with the prophet, “Bless the Lord, my soul, and all that is within me bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, my soul, and do not forget all his benefits.” And we see that the apostle also teaches us, “Pray constantly, in all things give thanks. This is the will of God for you in Christ Jesus.” ON ECCLESIASTICUS 3.17.
ERROR PREVENTS ONE FROM FINDING CHRIST. RABANUS MAURUS: It rightly says that they were stricken with blindness, like those who were blinded by the darkness and wandered before the door of the righteous one—that is, of Lot—looking for the door’s opening without finding it. In fact, whoever suffers interiorly because of the darkness of error is surrounded on all sides by extremely grave dangers, since he does not know the way to life. And nor can one who errs find that door who says in the Gospel, “I am the door. If someone enters through me, he will be saved. He will come in and go out and find pasture.” ON ECCLESIASTICUS 3.18.
THE ELEMENTS OBEY THE LORD. RABANUS MAURUS: People and herds crossed the depths of the Red Sea dry-shod, and frogs from the river filled the houses of the Egyptians. Fire rained from heaven mixed with hail, and neither the fire opposed itself to the water nor the water to the fire, but falling together they struck the land of the Egyptians. Where the children of Israel were, they hurt no one, to show that all the elements of the world are subject not only to their proper condition but also to the service of the will of the Creator. ON ECCLESIASTICUS 3.18.
THE TRIALS OF THE MARTYRS. RABANUS MAURUS: We must not object that the bodies of the holy martyrs are given over to the hands of their persecutors, since this is not allowed for their condemnation but to try them. As gold does not burn in the furnace but is tested, so the souls of the elect, tried by the fire of tribulation, are made purer before their Creator, since it is written, “The furnace tries the objects of the potter, the temptation of tribulation tests the righteous.” “Many are the misfortunes of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him from them all. He preserves all his bones; not one of them will be broken. He rescues the lives of his servants. The one who trusts in him will not be condemned.” ON ECCLESIASTICUS 3.18.