The promise attached to Goliath in 1 Samuel 17, which Neville treats as the clause that makes the whole David sequence work. The king promises that the man who kills the Philistine will be enriched with great riches, will be given the king's daughter, and will have his father's house made free in Israel - and it is the last term Neville keeps. He who brings down the giant, the enemy of Israel, I will set his father free in Israel. So the reward for the victory is not the victor's but his father's, and the question that follows is the one the whole corpus turns on: who is the father? The father is Jesse, and Jesse means I AM, and the father is Jesus Christ. When David has brought the giant down the promise must be fulfilled, and it is fulfilled by David looking at you and calling you Father - which is the moment the father is set free. About nine lectures. It belongs beside M753 (Jesse means I AM and has no father) and the David-calls-you-Father motifs; what this one adds is the mechanism: the finding of the father is a legal consequence of a victory someone else won.
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1 Samuel 17:25 | That he who brings down the giant, the enemy of Israel, I will set his father free in Israel
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And the promise is: “That he who brings down the giant, the enemy of Israel, I will set his father free in Israel”. Well, who is the father? The father is Jesse. The father is Jesus Christ—that’s Jesse.
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