They prevented me They encountered me, the same word as in 2 Samuel 22:6, meaning to meet with hostile intention. Preventis used in a sense which illustrates the transition from the original meaning -to go before" to the modern meaning -to hinder." See the Bible Word Book, p. 383. Cp. Milton's Paradise Lost, vi. 129:

Half way he met

His daring foe, at this prevention more

Incens'd.

my stay The staff on which he leaned for support. Cp. Psalms 23:4.

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