“Every kind of honour and happiness was bestowed upon you, and then was fulfilled that which is written, "My beloved ate and drank, and was enlarged and became fat, and kicked." [Deuteronomy 32:15] Hence flowed emulation and envy, strife and sedition, persecution and disorder, war and captivity. So the worthless rose u…”
Clement of Rome, 1th c. — Clement's First Letter to the Corinthians, Chapters 3-4
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14Then said Achish unto his servants, Lo, ye see the man is mad: wherefore then have ye brought him to me?
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12And David laid up these words in his heart, and was sore afraid of Achish the king of Gath.
13And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.
— 1 Samuel 21:14 —
15Have I need of mad men, that ye have brought this fellow to play the mad man in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house?