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| Chapter VIII. Of the Staff of the Egyptians.
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Chapter VIII.
Of the Staff of the Egyptians.
For Elisha, himself one
of them, teaches that the same men used to carry a staff; as he says to
Gehazi, his servant, when sending him to raise the woman’s son to
life: “Take my staff and run and go and place it on the
lad’s face that he may live.”660
And
the prophet
would
certainly not have given it to him to take unless he had been in the
habit of constantly carrying it about in his hand. And the carrying of
the staff spiritually teaches that they ought never to walk unarmed
among so many barking dogs of faults and invisible beasts of spiritual
wickedness (from which the blessed David, in his longing to be free,
says: “Deliver not, O Lord, to the beasts the soul that trusteth
in Thee”),661
but when they
attack them they ought to beat them off with the sign of the cross and
drive them far away; and when they rage furiously against them they
should annihilate them by the constant recollection of the Lord’s
passion and by following the example of His mortified
life.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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