And Achish answered and said to David, I know that thou [art] good in my sight, as an angel of God: notwithstanding the princes of the Philistines have said, He shall not go up with us to the battle.
Ver. 9. Thou art good in my sight, as an angel of God.] Thou art both pious and prosperous; secunde fluunt omnia ubicunque ades. a See Genesis 33:19 2 Samuel 14:17. Chrysostom calleth some eminent Christians of his time earthly angels; and Dr Taylor blessed the Lord that ever he came acquainted with that angel of God, John Bradford. The heathens were not without some blind notions of God and his angels; whom Plato maketh to be caeli motores; and Plutarch, messengers betwixt God and men, Iussa divina ferentes ad homines, et hominum vota ad deos; but excellent persons every way.
Notwithstanding the princes of the Philistines have said.] He rehearseth not all, nor the worst of the princes' words; to teach us, saith Osiander, that when we do report a tale from another man's mouth, we should make not the worst, but the best of it.
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