The Trumpet's Peril

Noli tuba canere ante te, sicut hypocritae faciunt. Si enim post se esset, quod videlicet tentaret, et non praecederet, humana haec esset tentatio, sed quando praecedit, diabolica est elatio. Ephraim pascit ventu, et sequitur aestum tota die: mendacium, et vastitatem multiplicat. Ventum enim pascere est auras laudis per dona muneris provocare, et gloriam illam aestu humanae laudis fit ire. Et sic multiplicantur adulantium mendacia, et vastantur bona in aeternum, si non esset laus humana, valitura Bene cane, frequenta canitcum: ut memoria tui fit. Sanctus Albertus Magnus, Commentarium in Mattheum, Caput VI Source: Here, p113

Do not blow your trumpet before you, as hypocrites do. 1 If it was behind him, which certainly would be a trial, and it did not go before him, it would be a human temptation, but when it goes before it is a diabolic elation. 'Ephraim pastures the winds, and follows the blazing heat all day, he multiplies falsehood and ruin.' 2 To pasture the winds is to demand the breath of praise by the giving of gifts, and that glory is to go about in the heat of human praise. And so the lies of adulators are multiplied, and goods in eternity are laid waste, which if there were not human praise would be confirmed. 'Sing well, sing many a song, so that you might be remembered.' 3 Saint Albert The Great, Commentary On The Gospel of St Matthew, Chapter 6 1 Mt 6.2 2 Hosea 12.1 3 Isaiah 23.16