{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/102/1020806.htm","path":"chr/ecf/102/1020806.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/102/1020806.htm","text":"Chapter 26.\u2014Obscure Passages are to Be Interpreted by Those Which are Clearer.\nNow from the places where the sense in which they are used is more manifest we must gather the sense in which they are to be understood in obscure passages. For example, there is no better way of understanding the words addressed to God, \u201cTake hold of shield and buckler and stand up for mine help,\u201d 1892 than by referring to the passage where we read, \u201cThou, Lord, hast crowned us with Thy favor as with a shield.\u201d 1893 And yet we are not so to understand it, as that wherever we meet with a shield put to indicate a protection of any kind, we must take it as signifying nothing but the favor of God. For we hear also of the shield of faith, \u201cwherewith,\u201d says the apostle, \u201cye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.\u201d 1894 Nor ought we, on the other hand, in regard to spiritual armor of this kind to assign faith to the shield only; for we read in another place of the breastplate of faith: \u201cputting on,\u201d says the apostle, \u201cthe breastplate of faith and love.\u201d 1895","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. II: On Christian Doc...","type":"page"}