A fortune cookie once advised:
“To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.” —Sun Tzu, The Art of War.
I wonder if he was inspired by the Psalm: “Go subduing in the midsts of your enemies.”? referring to Jesus Christ during his invisible presence. Whatever the source, he was in China at the time when his contemporary Zechariah wrote the words God said to Zerubbabel about 600 years later: “Not by power, not by military force, but by my spirit.”
Interesting coincidences.