And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, What man [is there that is] fearful and fainthearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren's heart faint as well as his heart.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Les officiers continueront à parler au peuple, et diront: Qui est-ce qui a peur et manque de courage? Qu'il s'en aille et retourne chez lui, afin que ses frères ne se découragent pas comme lui.
KJV
And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, What man [is there that is] fearful and fainthearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren's heart faint as well as his heart.
Philo Judaeus
De Virtutibus
Α 21 αἰρόντων M; ἀναιρούντων coni. Mang. οὑν post τοὺς add. A, post ὄχλον add. B2M ἀγενεῖς SKFMH 12 Deut. 20,8. οὐκ ὠφέλιμον ἀλλ’ ἐμπόδιον εἰς κατόρθωμα, ἀνεῖρξε τοὺς ἀτόλμους καὶ ἀναπίπτοντας δειλίᾳ, καθάπερ, οἶμαι, καὶ τοῖς τὰ σώματα νοσοῦσι στρατηγὸς οὐδεὶς ἀνάγκην ἐπιτίθησι π…
Eucherius of Lyon
Summary of the Works of Cassian
go home and live comfortably there, so that he does not instill fear in the hearts of his brothers. (Deuteronomy 20:8). Is there anything more secure and clear than this testimony? Don’t we learn from these words that when we renounce the world, we must do so completely and proce…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
f fortitude. Therefore the timid and faint-hearted are unfittingly excused from the toil of battle ( Dt. 20:8 ). On the contrary, Divine Wisdom declares ( Prov. 8:8 ): "All my words are just, there is nothing wicked nor perverse in them." I answer that, Man's relations with forei…
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