Hilary of Poitiers, on Matt 7:24

“Every one therefore that heareth these my words, and doth them, shall be likened to a wise man that built his house upon a rock,”

“Otherwise; By the showers He signifies the allurements of smooth and gently invading pleasures, with which the faith is at first watered as with spreading rills, afterwards comes down the rush of torrent floods, that is, the motions of fiercer desire, and lastly, the whole force of the driving tempests rages against it, that is, the universal spirits of the Devil’s reign attack it.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.