from the army of Christ and loosened from the belt of truth. Therefore, if we are in the truth, we are girded; but if in the false, ungirded. Instead let us imitate those “forty thousand girded men proceeding to the war in the sight of the Lord,” and let us always be girded with truth. But indeed, I do not idly disregard that which Scripture added, “Girded in the sight of the Lord.” To be sure, it is not enough for you in the sight of men to seem to preserve the truth. For certainly it is possible