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He answered, “You shall not strike them. Would you strike those whom you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow? Set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, then go to their master.”
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Verse 22. For thou. Hebrew “Dost thou kill, and so forth?” If those who have surrendered themselves in battle be often spared, though they might be slain by the strict laws of war, how much less ought these men to be treated with such severity? Calmet.—Sicut bellanti & resistenti violentia redditur: ita victo vel capto misericorida jam debetur. Saint Augustine ep. 1. ad Bonif. Grot.—And water, all necessary provisions. Worthington.—These men were suffered to live that they might relate the wonders of God. Theod. q. 20.
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