Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

2 Samuel 13:29

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 10, page 177, footnote 6 (Image)

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CCEL Footnote 1496 (In-Text, Margin)

25. Holy David lost two sons; the one incestuous,[2 Samuel 13:29] the other a parricide. To have had them was a disgrace, to have lost them a grief. And he lost a third, the infant whom he loved. Him he wept for while still alive, but did not long for when dead. For so we read, that, while the child was sick, David entreated the Lord for him, and fasted and lay in sackcloth, and when the elders came near to raise him from the earth, he would neither rise nor eat. But when he heard that the child was dead, he changed his clothes, ...