Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
1 Samuel 2
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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 7, page 399, footnote 10 (Image)
Lactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus, Dionysius, Apostolic Teaching and Constitutions, 2 Clement, Early Liturgies
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Book II. Of Bishops, Presbyters, and Deacons (HTML)
Sec. III.—How the Bishop is to Treat the Innocent, the Guilty, and the Penitent (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 2635 (In-Text, Margin)
X. But he who does not consider these things, will, contrary to justice, spare him who deserves punishment; as Saul spared Agag, and Eli[1 Samuel 2] his sons, “who knew not the Lord.” Such a one profanes his own dignity, and that Church of God which is in his parish. Such a one is esteemed unjust before God and holy men, as affording occasion of scandal to many of the newly baptized, and to the catechumens; as also to the youth of both sexes, to whom a woe belongs, add “a mill-stone about his neck,” and drowning, on account of his guilt. For, observing what a ...
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 373, footnote 1 (Image)
Jerome: Letters and Select Works
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Against Jovinianus. (HTML)
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CCEL Footnote 4502 (In-Text, Margin)
... one will know whether he has drunk or not. “No striker,” that is, a striker of men’s consciences, for the Apostle is not pointing out what a boxer, but a pontiff ought not to do. He directly teaches what he ought to do: “but gentle, not contentious, no lover of money, one that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all chastity.” See what chastity is required in a bishop! If his child be unchaste, he himself cannot be a bishop, and he offends God in the same way as did[1 Samuel 2] Eli the priest, who had indeed rebuked his sons, but because he had not put away the offenders, fell backwards and died before the lamp of God went out. “Women in like manner must be chaste,” and so on. In every grade, and in both sexes, chastity ...