How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely to day of the spoil of their enemies which they found? for had there not been now a much greater slaughter among the Philistines?
Ver. 30. How much more, if haply the people had eaten.] Here are his reasons wherefore he disliked his father's act in restraining the people from eating till evening; which yet is much commended, but not so well, by Tertullian, Ambrose, Jerome, and Cajetan.