Bonaventure

"A small city" etc. Here is noted the deficiency of power, and this with respect to resisting the assailant: therefore he says: "A small city, and few men in it." "The siege was completed." And because it was small and had few men, therefore it was weak for defending itself: whence Jehoshaphat said in 2 Chronicles 20: "In us there is not so great strength that we can resist this great multitude," because, namely, they were few. …

Commentary on Ecclesiastes, Chapter 9 ↗