What David meant by these curses can be best known from his own actions. What certain persons have meant by them since is patent enough from their actions. Medifval monks considered but too often the enemies of their creed, of their ecclesiastical organisation, even of their particular monastery, to be ipso facto enemies of God; and applied to them the seeming curses of David's Psalms, with fearful additions, of which David, to his honour, never dreamed.