Christ compels the power of the temporal prince to serve Him, and has entrusted and committed His Church to him. — The Lord asserts that He has confidence in the strength of the rhinoceros, because the powers which He conferred temporally upon the earthly prince He has bent to the worship of His own veneration, so that from the power he received—through which he once swelled against God—he may now render religious obedience to God. For the more he is able in the world, the more he prevails on behalf of the Author of the world. For because he himself is feared by his subjects, he persuades the more easily, in proportion as he points out with his power Him who is truly to be feared. Let it therefore be said: Wilt thou have confidence in his great strength? As if it were said:
as I, who behold the strength of earthly princes destined to serve My worship. For I esteem the things you now do the less, in proportion as I already foresee that I shall bend to Myself even the greater powers of this world. And well is it subjoined: And wilt thou leave thy labours to him? For the Lord left His labours to this rhinoceros, because, the earthly prince being converted, He entrusted to him the Church, which He purchased by His own death; that is to say, He committed into his hand with how great solicitude the peace of the faith is to be guarded. There follows: