The Importance of Preserving Virtue

David is using the staff as a decoy to lure Goliath into close combat so that he can hit him with the stones from his slingshot. So even King David, and by the way, King David also pretends to be mad at a certain point. And so I think that that's perfectly in line with what Machiavelli is doing here. The religious language, everyone will confess that it prints these kinds of things.