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Untrained in swordsmanship, horsemanship, or any such skills - for they were, for the most part, students of theology, humble and self-effacing - these were not men of physical prowess. Yet, though weakened by months of hardship and deprivation, at the call "Mount your steeds, O heroes of God!" , they would rush forth into battle and manifested a courage and ability which struck fear among the camp of the enemy and spread ruin among its troops
(153:8)
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