Victory And Defeat

Ista palo Sisaram hostem interficit, id est, ligni crucis virtute diabolum interimit, quod Barac, id est, prior populus per legis praecepta facere non potuit; sola enim ista per lignum, in quo spiritualibus sacramentis credentium salus est, fidei hostem affigit; quem deinde mortuum pellibus obtegit, id est, inclusum in carnalium cordibus derelinquit. Non enim latent mortifera ipsius, nisi in corruptibilitate vitae viventibus, et peccata mortalia perpetrantibus, qui, dum prave viventes, segregantur a corpore Christi, efficuntur membra diaboli. Sanctus Isidorus Hispalensis,Mysticorum Expositiones Sacramentorum Seu Quaestiones In Vetus Testamentum, In Librum Judicum, Cap II

And this woman Jael kills the enemy Sisara with a peg, 1 that is, with the power of the wood of the cross she slays the devil, which Barac, that is, the prior people, were not able to do through the commands of the Law, for only through this wood, in which is the salvation of the faithful with spiritual sacraments, is the enemy of the faith defeated. And she then wraps the dead man in pelts, that is, he perishes closed up in the carnal thoughts of the heart. For the death bearing nature of this is not hidden, unless to those living corrupt lives, and those committing mortal sins, those who while living in a depraved way, separated from the body of Christ, are made into members of the devil. Saint Isidore of Seville, Expositions of Sacred Mysteries or Questions on the Old Testament, On The Book of Judges, Chap 2 1 Judg 4.17-21