also garrotte, 1620s, Spanish method of capital punishment by strangulation, from Spanish garrote stick for twisting cord, of unknown origin, perhaps from Old French guaroc club, stick, rod, shaft of a crossbow, probably ultimately Celtic, but possibly from Frankish *wrokkan to twist (cf.
Barak was a war leader, not a position for a timid man. When the fighting started, he was right in it leading his men. He pursued the fleeing host and wiped them out to a man, hardly the sign of a timid and weak man. The proof of Barakâs humble meekness, I think, is shown in the song of Deborah in chapter five.
Thomas Hobbes (1588â1679) was an English philosopher and the author of the famous book Leviathan. Famously, Hobbes declared that primitive human life was solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.. I use Hobbes to illustrate a pessimistic view of natural man..