Lecture 15

^3:43^ Samech. You have covered in your wrath, and have struck us: you have killed and have not spared.

^3:44^ Samech. You have set a cloud before you, that our prayer may not pass through.

^3:45^ Samech. You have made me as an outcast, and refuse in the midst of the people.

59. You have struck us, first, by various tribulations, and then finally you have killed. Because the jealousy and rage of the husband will not spare in the day of revenge (Prov 6:34).

Second, by rejecting the prayer of sinners, you have set a cloud before you, that is, our sins, putting them against our prayer. But your iniquities have divided between you and your God (Isa 59:2).

Third, by dispersing them, an outcast, torn, as it were, from the constancy of your protection, and filled with your indignation. Through the force of winds they shall be rooted out. For the branches not being perfect, shall be broken (Wis 4:4–5).