Notes, Critical and Explanatory, on the Holy Scriptures

From Me. "When the Church shall have silenced every voice raised against her, then the servants of the Lord, who obey Him, will have their inheritance, an everlasting possession." St Jerome.

God has created the material of which a weapon is made, and the workman who makes it, and the soldier who uses it. He can control all in a way to protect His Church. St Jerome explains the text of the devil, " the author of all evils, not by the necessity of his nature, but by his free will. Elimas, Simon Magus, and other wicked men, are his instruments and agents; but God has created and raised up a man to destroy him, and defeat his efforts." St Jerome.