Augustine of Hippo, on Exod 17:8

“And Amalec came, and fought against Israel in Raphidim.”

“There is no vice which the divine law resists more [than pride]. That most proud spirit becomes an obstacle to things above and a mediator to things below. It thereby receives a greater power of domination, unless one avoids the secret snares he is laying by going along a different way. If he is openly raging through a sinful people, he is like Amalek. By his opposition he denies the passage to the land of promise. He then must be overcome by the cross of Christ, which was prefigured by the extended hands of Moses.”

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