^* Father John of Kronstadt having published an article in which he says that this passage shows Tolstoy’s ignorance of the Bible, it may be well here to quote 1 Chron. 20: 3: ‘And he brought out the people that were in it, and cut them with saws, and with harrows of iron, and with axes. Even so dealt David with all the cities of the children of Ammon.’ [A. M.]

 

^* The reference here is not to the Old and New Testaments in their entirety (the extreme value of many parts of which Tolstoy does not question), but to a compilation for school use, which is largely used in place of the Bible. [A. M.]