Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

1 Samuel 28:7

There are 2 footnotes for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 3, page 234, footnote 4 (Image)

Tertullian (I, II, III)

Apologetic. (HTML)

A Treatise on the Soul. (HTML)

Magic and Sorcery Only Apparent in Their Effects. God Alone Can Raise the Dead. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1826 (In-Text, Margin)

... truth? At this very time, even, the heretical dupes of this same Simon (Magus) are so much elated by the extravagant pretensions of their art, that they undertake to bring up from Hades the souls of the prophets themselves. And I suppose that they can do so under cover of a lying wonder. For, indeed, it was no less than this that was anciently permitted to the Pythonic (or ventriloquistic) spirit —even to represent the soul of Samuel, when Saul consulted the dead, after (losing the living) God.[1 Samuel 28:6-16] God forbid, however, that we should suppose that the soul of any saint, much less of a prophet, can be dragged out of (its resting-place in Hades) by a demon. We know that “Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light” —much more into a man ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 2, page 547, footnote 3 (Image)

Augustine: The City of God, Christian Doctrine

On Christian Doctrine (HTML)

Book II (HTML)

Why We Repudiate Arts of Divination. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1808 (In-Text, Margin)

... 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, that does not make such sacrilegious observances as those by which his ghost was brought up the less detestable; and though the ventriloquist woman[1 Samuel 28:7] in the Acts of the Apostles bore true testimony to the apostles of the Lord, the Apostle Paul did not spare the evil spirit on that account, but rebuked and cast it out, and so made the woman clean.