Cyril of Alexandria, on Hos 2:14

“Therefore, behold I will allure her, and will lead her into the wilderness: and I will speak to her heart.”

“Since she [Israel] is accessible like a well-watered land to the herds of demons, he [the Lord] promises to treat her as a wilderness.… He will display it to their desires as an austere, untrodden and waterless place, so that finding no resting place they will despise it and depart.”

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