Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

1 Samuel 16

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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 1, page 121, footnote 3 (Image)

Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus

Ignatius (HTML)

Epistle from Maria of Cassobelæ (HTML)

Chapter IV.—The same subject continued. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1371 (In-Text, Margin)

... bodies, and throws down the temples, and cuts down the groves, and breaks in pieces the pillars, and breaks open the tombs of the ungodly, that not a relic of the wicked might any longer exist. To such an extent did he display zeal in the cause of godliness, and prove himself a punisher of the ungodly, while he as yet faltered in speech like a child. David, too, who was at once a prophet and a king, and the root of our Saviour according to the flesh, while yet a youth is anointed by Samuel to be king.[1 Samuel 16] For he himself says in a certain place, “I was small among my brethren, and the youngest in the house of my father.”