Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

1 Samuel 19:12

There are 3 footnotes for this reference.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 9, page 37, footnote 1 (Image)

Chrysostom: On the Priesthood, Ascetic Treatises, Select Homilies and Letters, Homilies on the Statutes

Treatise Concerning the Christian Priesthood. (HTML)

Book I (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 52 (In-Text, Margin)

... necessarily become exhausted, and fail those who possess them, whereas it is the nature of wisdom to increase the more it is exercised. And not in war only, but also in peace the need of deceit may be found, not merely in reference to the affairs of the state, but also in private life, in the dealings of husband with wife and wife with husband, son with father, friend with friend, and also children with a parent. For the daughter of Saul would not have been able to rescue her husband out of Saul’s hands[1 Samuel 19:12-18] except by deceiving her father. And her brother, wishing to save him whom she had rescued when he was again in danger, made use of the same weapon as the wife.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 11, page 132, footnote 2 (Image)

Chrysostom: Homilies on the Acts of the Apostles and the Epistle to the Romans

A Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles (HTML)

Homily XX on Acts ix. 10, 12. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 485 (In-Text, Margin)

... the five thousand, the three thousand, than everything, in short. And observe him, how he is delivered, not by (miraculous) grace, but by man’s wisdom—not as the apostles were—(ἐκεἴνοι, ch. v. 19) that thou mayest learn the energetic (ἀρετὴν) character of the man, how he shines even without miracles. “Then the disciples took him by night,” that the affair might not be suspected, “and let him down by the wall in a basket.”[1 Samuel 19:12] (v. 25.) What then? having escaped such a danger, does he flee? By no means, but goes where he kindled them to greater rage.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 2, page 82, footnote 8 (Image)

Socrates: Church History from A.D. 305-438; Sozomenus: Church History from A.D. 323-425

The Ecclesiastical History of Socrates Scholasticus. (HTML)

Book III (HTML)

Quotations from Athanasius' 'Defense of his Flight.' (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 489 (In-Text, Margin)

... But since they have lost sound judgment, their folly is exposed when they vanish, and when they seek to stay they do not see their wickedness. But if they reproach those who succeed in secreting themselves from the malice of their blood-thirsty adversaries, and revile such as flee from their persecutors, what will they say to Jacob’s retreat from the rage of his brother Esau, and to Moses retiring into the land of Midian for fear of Pharaoh? And what apology will these babblers make for David’s[1 Samuel 19:12] flight from Saul, when he sent messengers from his own house to dispatch him; and for his concealment in a cave, after contriving to extricate himself from the treacherous designs of Abimelech, by feigning madness? What will these reckless asserters ...