1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| I Samuel 29:4 | *But the princes of the Philistines were angry with him, and they said to him: Let this man return, and abide in his place, which thou hast appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest he be an adversary to us, when we shall begin to fight: for how can he otherwise appease his master, but with our heads? 1 Kings 27:8.; 1 Paralipomenon 12:19. | Adversary. Hebrew Satan, "a calumniator, enemy," etc. (Calmet) --- Tacitus (Hist. iv.) speaking of the Batavian corps, says, "which, being bribed, pretended to be faithful, that it might flee, and become more acceptable after it had betrayed the Romans in the heat of the engagement." |