43. Many times did he deliver them. By
reading the book of Judges we shall see how truthful is this sentence: again
and again their foes were routed, and they were set free again, only to return
with vigor to their former evil ways. But they provoked him with their counsel. With deliberation they agreed to transgress anew; self-will was
their counselor, and they followed it to their own destruction. And were brought low for their iniquity. Worse and worse were the evils brought upon
them, lower and lower they fell in sin, and consequently in sorrow. In dens and
caves of the earth they hid themselves; they were deprived of all warlike
weapons, and were utterly despised by their conquerors; they were rather a race
of serfs than of free men until the Lord in mercy raised them up again.
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