“To bind their kings in fetters. Do you wish the peoples to be set free? bind the teachers. To bind the kings. He did not call them teachers, but kings: for they reign by the miseries of those people. To bind their kings in fetters. He put it well, in fetters: lest the teachers should run about too much, lest they dece…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Homily 59, on Psalm 149
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8To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;
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6Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand;
7To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people;
— Psalms 149:8 —
9To execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints. Praise ye the LORD.