For it is for those well-disposed to pray for the best, and let all the rest be the concern of Christ Who is God. To fight well for the homeland is the best and only omen, the eminent Homer once rightly said, but to pray on behalf of the homeland is much better. Thus Moses evidently did in war, who with the people then waging war on Amalek prayed much, holding up his arms on both sides, and all day long Aaron and Hur propped them up, and at the same time his arms then held the form of the Cross.