But when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man lefthanded: and by him the children of Israel sent a present unto Eglon the king of Moab.
Ver. 15. A Benjamite, a man left-handed.] Scaeva fuit, and no less valiant than that Roman Scaeva, a soldier of Caesar's, who at the siege of Dyrrachium so long alone resisted Pompey's army till he had two hundred and twenty darts sticking in his shield,
“ Densam portans in pectore sylvam." ” - Lucan.
And no less famous in his way was Mr William Perkins, lame of his right hand, as Ehud, but yet so as that with a left-handed pen he stabbed the Eglon of Rome to the heart. Of him one writeth thus: -
“ Dextera quantumvis fuerit tibi manca, docendi
Pollebas mira dexteritate tamen. ”