Holy Scripture
1 Samuel 17:40
A church father on this verse
“We sometimes see a bad example drawn from good things. For if someone presumes to do the same things but not with the same disposition and orientation or with unlike virtue, he easily falls into the snares of deception and death on account of those very things from which others acquire the fruits of eternal life. That…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
40And he took his staff in his hand, and he chose for himself five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in the shepherd’s scrip which he had for his store, and his sling was in his hand; and he approached the Philistine.
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38And Saul clothed David with a military coat, and put his brazen helmet on his head.
39And he girded David with his sword over his coat: and he made trial walking with them once and again: and David said to Saul, I shall not be able to go with these, for I have not proved them: so they remove them from him.
— 1 Samuel 17:40 —
42And Goliath saw David, and despised him; for he was a lad, and ruddy, with a fair countenance.