Wolves And Sheep

Sicut oves in medio luporum... Ecce legationis difficultas. Et non dicit: iuxta lupos, sed ut nusquam fit effugere nisi capturam luporum, quia in hoc solo spes est, si lupi, natura lupina deposita, ab ovibus capi possunt. Beniamin lupus rapax mane dividet praedam, et vespere dividet spolia. Tales enim lupi sunt, qui de lupis possunt fieri filii dextrae et nunc praedam, quam mane, dum lupi erant, acceperunt, vespere conversionis spolia dividentes Domino reportant, sicut fecit Paulus. Lupus rapit et dispergit oves. Aestimati sumus sicut oves occisionis. Dedisti nos tanquam oves escarum, et in gentibus tanquam inter lupos dispersiti nos. In huius signum Rachel, quae ovis interpretatur, enixa est Beniamin. De quo dicitur Beniamin lupus rapax. Sanctus Albertus Magnus, Commentarium in Mattheum, Caput X Source: Here

Like sheep in the midst of wolves... 1 Behold the difficulty of the messenger. And He does not say: near the wolves, but that there never shall be escape unless the wolves are captured, because in this alone is hope, if the wolves, whose nature is established as the wolf, they are able to seize from the sheep. 'Benjamin is a rapacious wolf dividing the prey in the morning and in the evening dividing the spoil.' 2 For so are wolves, who yet from wolves can become sons of the right hand, and then the prey, which in the morning, while they were wolves, they took, in the evening, turning to dividing the spoil, they bring it back to the Lord, as Paul did. 'The wolf seizes and scatters the sheep.' 3 'We are judged as sheep for the slaughter.' 4 'You have handed us over as sheep for eating and we are scattered among the Gentiles,' 5 as among wolves. In this is the sign of Rachel, she whose name means sheep, she who gave birth to Benjamin. 6 Concerning which it is said Benjamin is a rapacious wolf. Saint Albert The Great, Commentary On The Gospel of St Matthew, Chapter 10 1 Mt 10.16 2 Gen 49.27 3 Jn 10.12 4 Ps 43.22 5 Ps 43.12 6 Gen 35.16-20