46. And lastly, her son Barak shows the
chief part of the victory was in the hands of a woman when he
said: “If thou wilt not go with me I will not go, for I
know not the day on which the Lord sendeth His angel with
me.” Jud. iv. 8 [LXX.]. How
great, then, was the might of that woman to whom the leader of the army
says, “If thou wilt not go I will not go.” How great,
I say, the fortitude of the widow who keeps not back her son from
dangers through motherly affection, but rather with the zeal of a
mother exhorts her son to go forth to victory, while saying that the
decisive point of that victory is in the hand of a woman!