2 Chronicles — Chapter 17

CUM SUMPSISSET COR EJUS AUDACIAM PROPTER VIAS DOMINI — Lapide: \"Piety and the keeping of God's law made Jehoshaphat bold, so that fearing no one he dared to remove the high places.\" Holiness is a terror and a reverence to all; such was Pius V in our age, who feared no kings.

MISIT DE PRINCIPIBUS SUIS — Jehoshaphat sent princes, Levites, and priests through all the cities of Judah to teach the people the law of God. Lapide compares him to the kings of Spain and Portugal who sent religious to instruct the peoples of the Indies in the knowledge and worship of the true God.