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John Gill's Exposition on 2 Samuel 21:20
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And there was yet a battle in Gath, etc.] Besides the battles in the above place or places; for this does not necessarily suppose that one of the said battles had been there, only that this, which was another battle, had been there: where was a man of [great] stature; for so the sense of the word appears to be from (<132006>1 Chronicles 20:6); though here it signifies a man of strife and contention, a man of war, and both were true of him: that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; twelve fingers on his two hands, and twelve toes on his two feet. Pliny f368 speaks of one M. Curiatius, a patrician, who had two daughters that had six fingers on an hand, and were called “Sedigitae”, sixfingered; and of Volcatius, a famous poet, called “Sedigitus”, or sixfingered, for the same reason; and elsewhere, from other writers f369 he makes mention of a people that had eight toes each foot; so Ctesias f370 speaks of a people in the mountains of India, which have eight fingers on each hand, and eight toes on each foot, both men and women: and he also was born to the giant; a son of a giant.
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