Driving From The Way Of Truth

Tota die exprobrabant mihi inimici mei, et qui laudabant me, adversum me jurabant.  Ore laudabant et corde insidias praeparabant. Laudabant, ut deciperent; praedicabant, ut subverterent: et hoc a diabolo, qui si publicis peccatis servum Christi subvertere non poterit, opprobriis et reprehensionibus circumhabitantium a via veritas eum deterrere nititur. Sunt plurimi bona facere erubescentes, ne dissimiles sint multitudini mala facientium. Alcuinus, Expositio In Psalmos Poenitentiales Source: Migne PL 100.589a

All day long my enemy cursed me, and they who praised me, they swore against me. 1 With their mouths they praised and in their hearts they prepared snares. They praised that they might deceive; they spoke that they might overthrow. And this is from the devil, who if he cannot overthrow a servant of Christ with public sins, surrounds him with shame and reproof, striving to deter him from the way of truth. There are indeed many who blush to do good things, lest they be unlike the multitude who do evil. Alcuin of York, Commentary On The Penitential Psalms 1 Ps 101.9