Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

1 Samuel 15:9

There is 1 footnote for this reference.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 5, page 339, footnote 1 (Image)

Augustine: Anti-Pelagian Writings

A Treatise on the Soul and its Origin. (HTML)

Book II (HTML)

Disobedient Compassion and Compassionate Disobedience Reprobated. Martyrdom in Lieu of Baptism. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2420 (In-Text, Margin)

... sacrament of baptism. This man, however, professes the catholic belief on this point, admitting that infants are tied in the bonds of original sin, and yet he releases them from these bonds without the laver of regeneration, and after death, in his compassion, he admits them into paradise; while, with a still ampler compassion, he introduces them after the resurrection even to the kingdom of heaven. Such compassion did Saul see fit to assume when he spared the king whom God commanded to be slain;[1 Samuel 15:9] deservedly, however, was his disobedient compassion, or (if you prefer it) his compassionate disobedience, reprobated and condemned, that man may be on his guard against extending mercy to his fellow-man, in opposition to the sentence of Him by whom ...