Bede

And he stood and cried out against the ranks of Israel, etc. Pride is the enemy of old, so that until the incarnation and passion of the Lord Savior, he assumed he could not be overcome by any mortal. For it is not without reason that it was said to blessed Job: "There is no power upon the earth that can be compared to him, who was made to fear no one" (Job 41); and even up to the end of this present age, he troubles the Church through the Jews, gentiles, and heretics, as if with a wicked armor-bearer preceding him, standing against …

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