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20 Aug 2023

Conquest In War

Dominus conterens bella, Dominus nomen est illi qui posuit castra sua in medio populi sui ut eriperet nos de manu omnium inimicorum nostrorum.

Redempter noster, de quo in Psalmo scriptum est: Dominus fortis, Dominus potens in praelio, ipse per sanguinem crucis suae contrivit saevitiam diaboli, et mundum subjecit suae ditioni, qui resurgens a mortuis ad discipulos suos ait: Data est mihi omnis potestas in coelo et in terra. Euntes docete omnes gentes, baptizantes eos in nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus sancti, docentes eos observare omnia, quaecunque mandavi vobis. Et ecce ego vobiscum sum omnibus diebus, usque ad consummationem saeculo. Castra ergo sua in medio populi sui posuit, cum Ecclesiam suam in medio nationum constituit, in qua semper manens quotidie electos suos de manibus inimicorum liberat, sed in fine mundi perfectam liberationem eis praestabit, quando absorbetur id quod mortale est a vita, et ipsa novissima destruetur mors; quando sancti fulgebunt, sicut sol in regno Patris eorum, et interitum omnium hostium suorum, cum capite suo ipsi videntes ridebunt et dicent: Ecce homo, qui non posuit Deum adjutorem sibi, sed speravit in multitudine divitiarum suarum, et praevaluit in vanitate sua. Ego autem sicut oliva fructifera in domo Dei speravi in misericordia ejus in aeternum, et in saeculum saeculi confitebor illi.

Rabanus Maurus, Expositio in Librum Judith, Caput XVI

Source: Migne PL 109.582c-583a
The Lord conquers in war, the Lord is His name, He who has placed His camp in the midst of His people, that He might seize us from the hand of all our enemies. 1

Our Redeemer, concerning whom it is written in the Psalm: 'The Lord is strong, the Lord is powerful in war,' 2 crushed down the savagery of the devil by the power of the cross and subjected the world to his Deity, He who rising from the dead said to His disciples, 'All power is given to me in heaven and on earth. Go out and teach all the peoples, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe everything which I have commanded you. And behold I am with you every day, even to the consummation of the world.' 3 Therefore He placed His camp in the midst of His people when He established His Church in the midst of the nations, in which He is always, every day, freeing his chosen ones from the hands of enemies, but at the end of the world He will give them a perfect liberation, when that which is mortal is stripped from life, and the final death is destroyed, 4 when the saints shine as the sun in the kingdom of the father, and all their enemies are ruined, when with their own heads they look and laugh and say: 'Behold the man, who did not have God as a helper, but hoped in his own riches, and prevailed in is vanity. But I am like a fruitful olive in the house of the Lord, I hoped in His mercy forever, and I shall confess Him to eternity.' 5

Rabanus Maurus, Commentary On Judith, Chap 16

1 Judith 16.3-4
2 Ps 23.8
3 Mt 28.18-20
4 1 Cor 15.53-54
5 Ps 51.8-11

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