St. David in being smaller did not make him by nature more holy than Goliath. It is not smallness that defeated Goliath nor faith as a function and mechanism of smallness that did it, rather it was the faith of a man of God, the faith and prayers of a shepherd boy, holy and mighty that tore the giant apart. He struck him with his sling, and cut his head with the giant’s own sword, not by littleness but by prayer and faith, holiness and might, in the name of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the name mocked by Goliath, and a name victorious in St. David by faith and slaughter.