Sins And Enemies

Nam multis annis pro suis offensis multis regibus servierunt, et iterum conversi liberati sunt. Sed quid est, quod saepe peccantes in manu hostili traduntur, nisi quod nostra peccata, quando delinquimus, vires hostibus praebent, et quando nos facimus malum in conspectu Domini, tunc confortantur adversarii nostri, id est, daemones, spiritualium nequitiarum virtutes? Sanctus Isidorus Hispalensis, Mysticorum Expositiones Sacramentorum Seu Quaestiones In Vetus Testamentum, In Librum Judicum, Cap I Source: Migne PL 83.379c-d

For many years, for their many wrongs, they were under the power of kings, 1 and again turning from their wrongs they were liberated. But what is this, that sinning often they were given into the hand of the enemy, unless that our sins, when we err, give strength to the enemy, and when we do evil in the sight of the Lord, then our adversaries are strengthened, that is, demons, powers of spiritual iniquity? Saint Isidore of Seville, Expositions of Sacred Mysteries or Questions on the Old Testament, On The Book of Judges, Chap 1 1 Judges 3