“Therefore, the devastator who was sent feared the spiritual, not the figurative, appearance, because he recognized the greatness of the true Pontiff. Now ascend to the higher traces of this word, and from there see how the true Pontiff, Jesus Christ, having assumed the staff of human flesh and placed upon it the fire…”
Rabanus Maurus, 9th c. — Commentary on Wisdom, PL 109
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25Unto these the destroyer gave place, and was afraid of them: for it was enough that they only tasted of the wrath.
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23For when the dead were now fallen down by heaps one upon another, standing between, he stayed the wrath, and parted the way to the living.
24For in the long garment was the whole world, and in the four rows of the stones was the glory of the fathers graven, and thy Majesty upon the diadem of his head.