Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

1 Samuel 18:6

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 61, footnote 9 (Image)

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CCEL Footnote 951 (In-Text, Margin)

... all the greater. Mary, the mother of the Lord, left the lowlands and made her way to the hill country, when, after receiving the angel’s message, she realized that she bore within her womb the Son of God. When of old the Philistines had been overcome, when their devilish audacity had been smitten, when their champion had fallen on his face to the earth, it was from this city that there went forth a procession of jubilant souls, a harmonious choir to sing our David’s victory over tens of thousands.[1 Samuel 18:6-7] Here, too, it was that the angel grasped his sword, and while he laid waste the whole of the ungodly city, marked out the temple of the Lord in the threshing floor of Ornan, king of the Jebusites. Thus early was it made plain that Christ’s church ...