What is the meaning of "we are not without ~"?
e.g. Like a Goliath, the giant of evolution defies the living God day after day in the public arena. But we are not without our Davids. Our speaker is a David.
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This is a case of litotes:
The above definition can be hard to get, but with examples it's very easy to understand.
Means that the problem is not small. Logically speaking, when something isn't small, it doesn't mean that it's large. But in this style of speaking or writing (litotes), it actually implies the opposite. Here's an example from the Wikipedia article:
Logically if you're NOT unfamiliar with something, it doesn't mean you're necessarily knowledgeable. However this sentence means something like:
or if you want Wikipedia's version:
In your example:
In this particular form (litotes), means something like:
Sorry I can't go into more detail, as I don't have much context about this David and Goliath passage.
Here are a number of other examples, and an explanation of this style.