▼16:7This verse gives credit to Judith, as the one to whom the enemy was handed over by God. However, the one who ‘confodit eum’ (runs him through), is the same one who ‘tradidit’ (same ending, same sentence construction), i.e. the Lord. The Book of Judith is actually about the Virgin Mary. Christ the Lord defeats the Antichrist, but he does so by means of the Virgin Mary. It is actually the Lord who defeats him, or runs him through, but the Virgin Mary – devotion to her, prayers of her Rosary, etc., and her ultimate return with Christ at the end of the Antichrist’s reign – are the means by which he is defeated.(Conte)