5. For reasoning is not an eradicator, but an antagonist of the passions.
6. And this may be more clearly comprehended from the thirst of king David.
7. For after David had been attacking the Philistines the whole day, he with the soldiers of his nation killed many of them;
8. then when evening came, sweating and very weary, he came to the royal tent, about which the entire host of our ancestors was encamped.