Amalekites
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Amalek · the Amalekites
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The Rights of War and Peace
Enemy people of Israel cited in scriptural war narratives and in the discussion of enemies exempted from ordinary compassion.
To these may be added the Amalekites, with whom the Israelites were commanded to maintain irreconcileable war.
chapter of Exodus supplies a passage more to the purpose, relating the overthrow which the Israelites, conducted by Moses and Joshua, made of the Amalekites.
Thus David too claims and divides as his own, what he himself had taken from the Amalekites, and the Amalekites, before him, from the Philistines.
Adversus Judaeos
People fought by Joshua during Moses' cross-shaped prayer.
But again Moses — why, indeed, did he then, when Joshua was fighting against Amalek, pray sitting with hands outstretched, when in matters so urgent he ought rather to have commended his prayer on bended knees, with hands beating his breast and his face rolled in the dust — except that there, where the name of the Lord Jesus was spoken, of those who would one day do battle against the devil, the p …
Adversus Marcionem
The people fought by Joshua while Moses's outstretched arms prefigure the cross.
And now Moses — why, precisely then, when Joshua was fighting against Amalek, did he pray sitting with hands outspread, when in matters so alarming he ought rather to have commended his prayer with knees bowed and hands smiting the breast and face rolling on the ground — unless because there, where the name of the Lord was contending (to contend one day against the devil), the posture of the cross …