Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

1 Samuel 28

There are 2 footnotes for this reference.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 2, page 547, footnote 2 (Image)

Augustine: The City of God, Christian Doctrine

On Christian Doctrine (HTML)

Book II (HTML)

Why We Repudiate Arts of Divination. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 1807 (In-Text, Margin)

... successes, they become more eagerly inquisitive, and involve themselves further and further in a labyrinth of most pernicious error. And to our advantage, the Word of God is not silent about this species of fornication of the soul; and it does not warn the soul against following such practices on the ground that those who profess them speak lies, but it says, “Even if what they tell you should come to pass, hearken not unto them.” For though the ghost of the dead Samuel foretold the truth to King Saul,[1 Samuel 28] that does not make such sacrilegious observances as those by which his ghost was brought up the less detestable; and though the ventriloquist woman in the Acts of the Apostles bore true testimony to the apostles of the Lord, the Apostle Paul did not ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 10, page 258, footnote 5 (Image)

Ambrose: Select Works and Letters

Dogmatic Treatises, Ethical Works, and Sermons. (HTML)

Exposition of the Christian Faith. (HTML)

Book III. (HTML)
Chapter XIV. The Son is of one substance with the Father. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 2290 (In-Text, Margin)

112. And, indeed, what hinders you from understanding, by that substance, His divine substance, seeing that God is everywhere, so that it hath been said to Him: “If I go up into heaven, Thou art there; if I go down into hell, Thou art present.”[1 Samuel 28]

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