The personalities of Russia's President Putin and Ukraine's President Zelenskyy are described in Ecclesiasticus, a book of the Apocrypha, where we read in Chapter One, "The furious man cannot be justified."
What better description of a wee man intent on destroying another's country? His rage was heightened by the recent damage to his showpiece bridge. To give vent to his fury, he is currently sending against innocent Ukrainian civilians suicide drones purchased from Iran (whose sclerotic leadership has problems of its own).
Putin takes his cues from the playbook of Adolf Hitler while his personality is described in the Bible. The behaviour of this wee man is nothing new; the wicked have been in a rage for millenia. The world awaits the "sway of his fury" to bring about his destruction.
Ecclesiasticus then tells us: "The patient man will hold out till the time comes," but he "will tear for a time." The world stands amazed at the cool presence of besieged leader Zelenskyy and his ability to communicate so succinctly to the world.
Both leaders are of a type. We pray for the weight of the wee man's rage to do its work in the near future and for the patient man to hold on so that "his joy will break out in the end."
