1 Samuel 17:51 (WEB)
Then David ran, stood over the Philistine, took his sword, drew it out of its sheath, killed him, and cut off his head with it. When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled.
Fathers and councils · 2
Ambrose of Milan
“…their adversaries; in order that they might take the sword, which their opponents had drawn, to smite off the head of those opponents’ own blasphemous heresy.” — editor's note: Cf. 1 Sam. xvii. 51.
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Jerome
“For he had learned from the true David to wrench the sword of the enemy out of his hand and with his own blade to cut off the head of the arrogant Goliath.” — editor's note: Cf. 1 Sam. xvii. 50, 51.
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Cross-references · 4
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith III.15.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith III.15.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith III.15.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith III.15.