Judith 8:11 (WEB)
They came to her, and she said to them, “Hear me now, O you rulers of the inhabitants of Bethulia! For your word that you have spoken before the people this day is not right. You have set the oath which you have pronounced between God and you, and have promised to deliver the city to our enemies, unless within these days the Lord turns to help you.
Fathers and councils · 1
“For this is true bravery, which surpasses the usual nature and the weakness of the sex by the devotion of the mind, such as was in her who was named Judith, who of herself alone was able to rouse up from utter prostration and defend from the enemy men broken down by the siege, smitten with fear, and pining with hunger.” — editor's note: Judith viii. 11 ff.
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Cross-references · 3
Cited together in Concerning Widows Chapter 7.
Cited together in Concerning Widows Chapter 7.
Cited together in Concerning Widows Chapter 7.