My God, think you upon Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and on the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in fear.
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Bede
AD 735
Pressured by the attacks of his enemies, Nehemiah enters the house of Shemaiah as though Shemaiah were his friend and brother but discovers that Shemaiah himself is a traitor and enemy, inasmuch as he had been corrupted by the gifts of friendship with foreigners. For the elect always have “conflicts without and fears within,” and not just the apostles but the prophets too lived a life fraught “with dangers from the nation, with dangers from Gentiles, with dangers from false brothers.”
