Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Judges 19:16
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 10, page 86, footnote 1 (Image)
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Chapter XIX. The crime committed by the inhabitants of Gibeah against the wife of a certain Levite is related, and from the vengeance taken it is inferred how the idea of virtue must have filled the heart of those people of old. (HTML)
113. When some little progress[Judges 19:10-21] was made, though night was threatening to come on, and they were close by the town of the Jebusites, on the slave’s request that his lord should turn aside there, he refused, because it was not a city of the children of Israel. He meant to get as far as Gibeah, which was inhabited by the people of the tribe of Benjamin. But when they arrived there was no one to receive them with hospitality, except a stranger of advanced age—When he had looked upon them he asked the Levite: ...