"Let them choose out their champions, and we will fight them, man for man."
Jailers and overseers of galleys generally become the champions of those whom they ought to torture.
Each was to choose a champion. The champions were to fight, and the king whose champion won was to have the city.
As champions stripped and oiled are wont to do, Watching for their advantage and their hold, Before they come to blows and thrusts between them,
This prodigal multiplicity and superfluity of resurrections seems to have been not a little embarrassing to modern Christian champions, though doubtless it did not in the least trouble the primitive non-scientific believers, to whom nothing was more natural than the unnatural, including the supernatural and the infranatural.