The black devil or the apostate Together with the wolf worrying the lambs. And…The blacke devil or the apostate Together with the wolfe worrying the lambes. And…

2. For Ferocity. The wolf is savage and cruel; and loves to lick his own lips, when they reek with the luke-warm gore of the lambs. There is no such complacency to the wicked, as the wreaking their malicious teens on the good. If they cannot reach with their claws, they vomit out fire, or at least smoke. Omnis malitia cructat fumum. ¹The tongue of such a wolf is often like a war-arrow, which doubly hurts where it lights. It wounds the flesh in going in, and it rends it worse in pulling out. This is the arrow they make ready on the string, to shoot privily at the upright in heart.²

2. For Ferocity. The wolfe is sauage and cruell; and loues to licke his owne lippes, when they reeke with the luke-warme goare of the lambes. There is no such complacency to the wicked, as the wreaking their malicious teenes on the good. If they cannot reach with their clawes, they vomite out fire, or at least smoke. Omnis malitia cructat fumum. ¹The tongue of such a wolfe is often like a warre-arrow, which doubly hurts where it lights. It wounds the flesh in going in, and it rends it worse in pulling out. This is the arrow they make ready on the string, to shoote priuily at the vpright in heart.²

1. 1Fulgent.
2. 2Psalm 11, 2.Psalme 11, 2.

Their atrocity is not thus satisfied; but if opportunity give power, they will wound and worry the lambs first, and proclaim their guiltinesses afterwards. As Cyril observes, the lamb of God was served by the Jews. Primùm ligant; deinde causas in eum