A good reason to take the literal meaning of “gird your loins”, “Buy a sword” kinda bent...
Not that it was something to ever look forward to, but hey, I do not believe Christians started this thing, and we have been turning the cheek for as long as I can recall...
So if this is the way it needs to be, okey dokey...
Stand for the truth and defend it to the death, and in the Way we’ve been instructed.