Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

2 Samuel 1

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 7, page 253, footnote 3 (Image)

Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen

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On His Father's Silence, Because of the Plague of Hail. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 3151 (In-Text, Margin)

17. Only let us recognise the purpose of the evil. Why have the crops withered, our storehouses been emptied, the pastures of our flocks failed, the fruits of the earth been withheld, and the plains been filled with shame instead of with fatness: why have valleys lamented and not abounded in corn, the mountains not dropped sweetness, as they shall do hereafter to the righteous, but been stript and dishonoured, and received on the contrary the curse of Gilboa?[2 Samuel 1:21] The whole earth has become as it was in the beginning, before it was adorned with its beauties. Thou visitedst the earth, and madest it to drink —but the visitation has been for evil, and the draught destructive. Alas! what a spectacle! Our prolific crops reduced to ...