Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

1 Samuel 26:8

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 9, page 230, footnote 5 (Image)

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

Homily to Those Who Had Not Attended the Assembly: and on the Apostolic Saying, 'If Thine Enemy Hunger, Feed Him, Etc. (Rom. xii. 20), and Concerning Resentment of Injuries.' (HTML)

To Those Who Had Not Attended the Assembly. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 763 (In-Text, Margin)

Well! did the captain who then counselled and urged him to the deed,[1 Samuel 26:8] did the memory of past events induce him to slay? no one of these things moved him: in fact the very facility for slaughter averted him from it: for he bethought him that God had put Saul in his hands for the purpose of furnishing ample ground and opportunity for the exercise of moral wisdom. You then perhaps admire him, because he did not cherish the memory of any of his past evils: but I am much more astonished at him for another reason. And what is this? ...