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2 Samuel 23:212Sam.23.21

And he slew an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear.

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Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Il frappa un Egyptien d'un aspect formidable et ayant une lance à la main; il descendit contre lui avec un bâton, arracha la lance de la main de l'Egyptien, et s'en servit pour le tuer.

KJV

And he slew an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear.

Patristic reading

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    Patrologia Latina Vol. 193 (Migne)

    issimus, qui pro eo quod maledixit David, jubente Salomone, interfectus est a Banaia filio Joiadae (II Reg. XXIII, 21) . Sic ergo iste Semei filius [Col. 0724A] Jemini cum esset, genere Israelita, propter hoc dicitur Aegyptius, quod a nigredine suae impietatis non fuit immutatu…

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