Volume 37 · p. 378
Book of Judges and Book of Ruth, page 378
dicum, I, 1 et 2: Consuluerunt filii Israel Dominum: et merito, quia ipse dicit: Sine me nihil potestis facere 1, dicentes: Quis ascendet, si aliquis Angelorum, si aliquis Sanctorum, ante nos debiles, inscios, et imprudentes, contra Chananaeum, id est, mundum, diabolum, et peccatum, et erit dux belli maximi, inquietissimi, continui? Dixitque Dominus: Judas, id est, Maria quae interpretatur confitens, ascendet. Ascendit enim in nativitate mundo apparendo, in assumptione, coram Patre caelesti ad eum interpellandum, semper pro nobis se primam offerendo. Ecce tradidi terram in manus ejus, imo et caelum, et meipsum. Unde dicit ex ore Filii sui, Matth. XXVIII, 18: Data est mihi omnis potestas. Noli ergo sine ipsa inire bellum. Ipsa enim dux est belli nostri, debet enim praecedere ex officio sibi a tota Trinitate injuncto.
2. Item, Ipsa est mater liberationis, et jubilationis, et gaudii. Judicum, V, 6 et seq.: Quieverunt semitae. Glossa: "Quia occupata ab hostibus eram, et non audebam ascendere ad orationem ad domum Domini." Cessaverunt fortes in Israel, et quieverunt, donec surgeret Debbora, id est, Maria: surgeret, per nativitatem in mundo apparendo, vel per assumptionem in caelum ascendendo, mater in Israel. Glossa: "quia consiliando, hortando, praedicando, ab hostibus liberavit." Quod et ipsa post Deum summe fecit: unde gratias agendo Deo, dicit, ibidem, v. 2: Ego sum, ego sum, paupercula Maria, humilis Maria, tamen Mater Dei, Regina caeli, Domina mundi, quae Domino canam. Glossa: "Vox justi, ille quidem est canorae vocis, et sincerae mentis, ut cantilena ejus divinum delectet auditum: quae omnino non habet in se raucum peccati sonum, et nihil offensionis in lingua, nihil crassitudinis in spiritu," psallam Domino Deo Israel, dicens, Luc. I, 46: Magnificat anima mea Dominum. Infra, ibidem, v. 8: Nova bella elegit Dominus. Glossa: "Quia inermes, fortes fecit, et triumphales." Et portas hostium ipse subvertit.
3. Ipsa est vellus roris divini. Judicum, VI, 36 et seq.: Dixitque Gedeon ad Deum: Ponam hoc vellus lanae, id est Virginem sacram, in area, in Judaica gente. Si ros totius orbis in solo vellere fluerit. Glossa: id est, in sola Maria: quod factum fuit in annuntiatione, quando in ea Christus humanitatem assumpsit: et in omni terra, et in cordibus infidelium siccitas, sciam quod per manum meam liberabis Israel. Quod enim ipsa impleta fuit gratia super omnem puram creaturam, signum fuit liberationis nostrae. Factumque est ita. Et de nocte consurgens, expresso vellere, id est, Maria, per invocationem, per devotam salutationem, concham. Glossa: cordis, rore, id est, gratia, implevit.
LIBER RUTH.
In diebus unius judicis 2.
1. Beatissima Domina vocatur Mater pulchritudinis, sed mihi in passione Filii sui fuit amaritudinis, et moeroris. Ruth, I, 19 et seq.: Dicebant mulieres, in adventu
ges I, 1 and 2: The sons of Israel consulted the Lord, and deservedly, because he himself says: Without me you can do nothing 1, saying: Who will go up, whether some one of the Angels, whether some one of the Saints, before us who are weak, ignorant, and imprudent, against the Canaanite, that is, the world, the devil, and sin, and will be the leader of the greatest, most restless, continual war? And the Lord said: Judah, that is, Mary, which is interpreted confessing, will go up. For she went up in the nativity by appearing to the world, and in the assumption before the heavenly Father to intercede with him, always offering herself first for us. Behold, I have handed the land into her hands, indeed also heaven and myself. Hence he says from the mouth of his Son, Matthew XXVIII, 18: All power has been given to me. Therefore do not enter battle without her. For she is the leader of our war; she ought to go before by the office enjoined on her by the whole Trinity.
2. Likewise, she is the mother of liberation, jubilation, and joy. Judges V, 6 and following: The paths rested. The Gloss: "Because I was occupied by enemies, and I did not dare to go up to prayer at the house of the Lord." The strong ceased in Israel and rested, until Deborah arose, that is, Mary; arose, by appearing in the world through the nativity, or by ascending into heaven through the assumption, a mother in Israel. The Gloss: "because by counseling, exhorting, and preaching, she freed from enemies." And she herself, after God, did this supremely; hence, giving thanks to God, she says there, verse 2: I am, I am, poor little Mary, humble Mary, nevertheless Mother of God, Queen of heaven, Lady of the world, who will sing to the Lord. The Gloss: "The voice of the just person; he indeed is of melodious voice and sincere mind, so that his song delights the divine hearing; she has in herself absolutely no hoarse sound of sin, and nothing of offense in the tongue, nothing of thickness in the spirit"; I will sing psalms to the Lord God of Israel, saying, Luke I, 46: My soul magnifies the Lord. Below, in the same place, verse 8: The Lord chose new wars. The Gloss: "Because he made the unarmed strong and triumphant." And he himself overturned the gates of the enemies.
3. She is the fleece of divine dew. Judges VI, 36 and following: Gideon said to God: I shall place this fleece of wool, that is, the sacred Virgin, on the threshing-floor, in the Jewish nation. If the dew of the whole world shall flow on the fleece alone. The Gloss: that is, in Mary alone, which was done in the annunciation, when Christ assumed humanity in her; and if there is dryness in all the earth and in the hearts of unbelievers, I shall know that through my hand you will free Israel. For that she was filled with grace above every pure creature was the sign of our liberation. And it was done so. And rising in the night, after the fleece, that is, Mary, had been pressed through invocation and through devout salutation, he filled the bowl, the Gloss: of the heart, with dew, that is, grace.
BOOK OF RUTH.
In the days of one judge 2.
1. The most blessed Lady is called Mother of beauty, but to me in the passion of her Son she was of bitterness and grief. Ruth I, 19 and following: The women were saying, at the coming
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