“What does he mean by this? As I take it, that goodness can with difficulty gain a hold on human nature, like fire on green wood; while most people are ready and disposed to join in evil, like stubble, I mean, ready for a spark and a wind, which is easily kindled and consumed from its dryness. For a person will engage…”
Gregory of Nazianzus, 4th c. — IN DEFENSE OF HIS FLIGHT TO PONTUS, ORATION 2:12
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13O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.
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In context
11Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:
12Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.
— Psalms 83:13 —
14As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;
15So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.