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Esther 2:14

Western Saints

Rabanus Maurus

What then follows—"She would enter in the evening and leave in the morning, and was then brought to the second building"—and so on, proves in an allegorical way that after our vices have subsided, the glow of our virtues (which will not shine properly anywhere but in the unity of the holy Church) ought to rise. …

Commentary on Esther ↗