. . . Moreover, David says: “Have I not hated them, O
Lord, that hated thee: and pine away because of thy enemies? I have hated them
with a perfect hatred: and they are become enemies to me.” Can it be that you
ignore the fervour of Phinehas and his prayer aimed at mitigating the anger of
God, sot that the divine spirit, through a prophetic mouth, might say about
him: “Them Phinehas stood up, and prayed to him, and the slaughter ceased?”
Truly that prayer, sung out by the voice of the psalmist, was the sentence of a
cruel sword aimed at the despisers. May our “merciful” ones see that this act
of cruelty was actually a prayer, and may they cease to hold up “pity and
humility” in matters sacred to the divine word; it was for this kind of “pity
and humility”—as they can read for themselves—that Saul was removed from the
kingship and Eli deprived of the priesthood and his life. (Paul Alvarus, Indiculus
luminosus 9, in The Indiculus luminosus of Paul Alvarus [trans.
Kenneth Baxter Wolf; Translated Texts for Historians 84; Liverpool:
Liverpool University Press, 2024], 133)
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