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==Jonathan, David and Saul==

==Jonathan, David and Saul==

As a result, Saul, who did not realize that David was the same man who used to play the peace-bringing harp, inquired as to who he was, and David spoke with Saul. Having seen and heard David, Jonathan realized an immediate soul-bond with the young warrior, with whom (their respective accounts indicate) he was so much alike in heart and faith. As [[John Wesley]] notes, "Loved him - For his excellent virtues and endowments, which shone forth both in his speeches and actions; for the service he had done to God and to his people; and for the similitude of their age and qualities."<ref>John Wesley's Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible</ref> Saul, as his practice was, (1Sam. 14:52) would not let David return home. Jonathan and David enter into a covenant, a common practice among leaders, which was one of 3 they would make.  Jonathan might well have known of his father's forfeiture of the kingdom by disobedience, that Samuel had anointed a shepherd boy as the next king, (1Sam. 13;15-16) and evidently as part of the covenant, Jonathan removes his robe and outer garments,<ref>[http://www.bible-history.com/isbe/D/DRESS nternational Standard Bible Encyclopedia, DRESS]</ref> even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his soldiers girdle (likely armor: 2Sam. 20:8; 2King. 3:21) that was upon him, to give them to David. This is seen to have a ceremonial significance, as Moses did likewise to the high priest Aaron, (Num. 20:26) stripping him of his garments to put them upon Eleazar his son, in transference of the office, and here this would signify David taking the place of Jonathan as king, as it normally would have been his by inheritance. It also was an unselfish providence of clothes befitting a member of the royal court, as David would have on the clothes of a shepherd.  (1Sam. 18:1-4)   

As a result, Saul, who did not realize that David was the same man who used to play the peace-bringing harp, inquired as to who he was, and David spoke with Saul. Having seen and heard David, Jonathan realized an immediate soul-bond with the young warrior, with whom (their respective accounts indicate) he was so much alike in heart and faith. As [[John Wesley]] notes, "Loved him - For his excellent virtues and endowments, which shone forth both in his speeches and actions; for the service he had done to God and to his people; and for the similitude of their age and qualities."<ref>John Wesley's Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible</ref> Saul, as his practice was, (1Sam. 14:52) would not let David return home. Jonathan and David enter into a covenant, a common practice among leaders, which was one of 3 they would make.  Jonathan might well have known of his father's forfeiture of the kingdom by disobedience, that Samuel had anointed a shepherd boy as the next king, (1Sam. 13;15-16) and evidently as part of the covenant, Jonathan removes his robe and outer garments,<ref>[http://www.bible-history.com/isbe/D/DRESS International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, DRESS]</ref> even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his soldiers girdle (likely armor:<ref>[http://bible.crosswalk.com/Commentaries/JamiesonFaussetBrown/jfb.cgi?book=1sa&chapter=018 Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown]</ref> 2Sam. 20:8; 2King. 3:21) that was upon him, to give them to David. This is seen to have a ceremonial significance, as Moses did likewise to the high priest Aaron, (Num. 20:26) stripping him of his garments to put them upon Eleazar his son, in transference of the office, and here this would signify David taking the place of Jonathan as king, as it normally would have been his by inheritance. It also was an unselfish providence of clothes befitting a member of the royal court, as David would have on the clothes of a shepherd.  (1Sam. 18:1-4)   

===Saul versus David===

===Saul versus David===

David beautifully expresses his recollections and distress "in the most tender and the most striking manner, with lively images of love and greatness", states Clark,<ref>Adam Clarke, LL.D., F.S.A., (1715-1832)</ref> "Being himself a warrior, it is in that character he sees their greatest excellence; and though his imagination hurries from one point of recollection to another, yet we hear him - at first, at last, everywhere - lamenting, How are the mighty fallen!  

David beautifully expresses his recollections and distress "in the most tender and the most striking manner, with lively images of love and greatness", states Clark,<ref>Adam Clarke, LL.D., F.S.A., (1715-1832)</ref> "Being himself a warrior, it is in that character he sees their greatest excellence; and though his imagination hurries from one point of recollection to another, yet we hear him - at first, at last, everywhere - lamenting, How are the mighty fallen!  

Herein David expresses the seeming incongruity of beauty being slain, and of the mighty being fallen, and of whole hearted brotherly platonic being superior to "the love of women" - that being that which men uniquely (lawfully) realize from them, of a romantic or erotic nature.<ref>Matthew Henry, 1Sam. 1:26</ref> Christians are commanded, (and are seen to come short of)  "And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins."  

Herein David expresses the seeming incongruity of beauty being slain, and of the mighty being fallen, and of whole hearted brotherly platonic being superior to "the love of women" - that being that which men uniquely (lawfully) realize from them, of a romantic or erotic nature.<ref>Matthew Henry, 1Sam. 1:26</ref> Christians are commanded, (and are seen to come short of)  "And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins."

==Homoerotic rendering of David and Jonathan==

==Homoerotic rendering of David and Jonathan==