John Trapp Complete Commentary - 1 Samuel 27:5

John Trapp Complete Commentary - 1 Samuel 27:5 - 27:5

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - 1 Samuel 27:5 - 27:5

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This Chapter Verse Commentaries:

27:1 - 27:1
27:2 - 27:2
27:3 - 27:3
27:4 - 27:4
27:5 - 27:5
27:6 - 27:6
27:7 - 27:7
27:8 - 27:8
27:9 - 27:9
27:10 - 27:10
27:11 - 27:11
27:12 - 27:12

1Sa_27:5 And David said unto Achish, If I have now found grace in thine eyes, let them give me a place in some town in the country, that I may dwell there: for why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with thee?

Ver. 5. For why should thy servant dwell in the royal city?] Exeat aula qui vult esse pius. The court he found to be but an ill air for devotion to breathe in, and therefore beggeth a bene discessit, pretending modesty.

“Vive tibi, quantumqae potes praelustria vita.” - Ovid.

O Vacia, solus scis vivere, said the Romans of one that had retired himself from the court into the country.