Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

1 Samuel 28:9

There is 1 footnote 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 ...