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1Sa_17:35 And I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered [it] out of his mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught [him] by his beard, and smote him, and slew him.
Ver. 35. And delivered it out of his mouth.] So did Christ his darling, the Church, out of the mouth of the lion of hell. If the devil be leo ùñõïìåíïò , {1Pe_5:8} Christ, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, is ï ñõïìåíïò , he that delivereth his from the wrath to come. {1Th_1:10}
I caught him by his beard.] I killed him cominus, fighting with him hand to hand as it were. This was an act of admirable courage in David: what could any Samson or Lysimachus have done more? Leo animalibus omnibus robore, animo et crudelitate antecellit: nec feras tantum, sed homines etiam devorat. Nonnulli quidem multis in locis, vel ducentos equites invidere audeant, {a} i.e., The lion exceedeth all other living creatures in strength, courage, and cruelty: he devoureth not only beasts but men. Some lions in some places have not feared to set upon two hundred horsemen at once, and have slain five or six of them.
{a} Gesner. de Animal.