Didymus the Blind, on Eccl 10:4

“If the spirit of him that hath power, ascend upon thee, leave not thy place: because care will make the greatest sins to cease.”

“"If the anger of the ruler rises against you"—if he seems to have power over you, it is only because you have subjected yourself to him. For as "sin reigns in the mortal bodies" of those who want to "obey their passions," and as someone is ruled over if he is ruled by mammon and has focused his thinking on the desire for money, so he [the ruler] has power over the one who subjects himself as slave.”

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