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What the Fathers say

1 Samuel 13:21

Western Saints

Gregory the Dialogist

32. The edges are not said to be bent back or worn down, but blunted. For if they were bent back or worn down, they would cut nothing at all. But a blunted edge, even if it does not quickly cut through everything, does cut certain things placed before it with the delay of labor. So indeed are the hearts of the simple, which, if they do not subtly understand spiritual things, yet because they slowly understand certain things, possess a sharpness of mind that is not keen but blunted. …

Commentary on 1 Kings, Book 5, Chapter 3 ↗