To be near unto God - pagina 97

and fighting wrote the Psalms archers were few close range wa5 done by man against man at the foot, and clashing of eye to eye, of foot touching could not end until of swords. And such combats in his own one of the two assailants was bathed lite. In such times the shield was ones blood another in Without a shield no man could meet

Among the nations of battle who carried one. the main thing. antiquity a shield therefore was African savage the covers it day this to as Even l^or his assagai with assault an makes he when the blow ot breaks arrow, the catches the shield the sword. When the lans and parries the stroke of their day many thousands in Jerusalem, who their lives had used the shield and had saved in the songs of Zion and gloried

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It was not shield was a cover for the body. combatant, but carried by another in front of the It was was carried by the combatant himself. the arm and held with the left hand. It rested on of the was reallv nothing else than a broademng involuntarily same. He who attacked with a gun risk of having raises his arm, with which, at the his face and his heart. And it wounded, he covers and to not to expose the arm in such encounters, desire to save protect the larger part of the body, First the long shield the shield.

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body, and which covered the entire length of the which to then the short shield, or buckler, with always in such parry the stroke of the sword. But a

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