David went out to meet them, and answered them, If you be come peaceably to me to help me, my heart shall be knit to you; but if [you be come] to betray me to my adversaries, seeing there is no wrong in my hands, the God of our fathers look thereon, and rebuke it.
Then he added, “Peace be to thee.” “Peace, peace, be to thee.” Double peace to thee. So say we to our Lord Jesus Christ: our heart salutes Him and invokes peace upon Him. Blessed Master, we are at peace with Thee so completely as to be at one with Thee. What Thou sayest we believe; what Thou doest we admire, what Thou commandest we obey, what Thou claimest we resign; what Thou forbiddest we forego. We yield ourselves up to Thee wholly, and are at perfect peace with Thee in all thy purposes, and designs and acts. Peace, peace to thee.
