Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

2 Samuel 15:3

There are 2 footnotes for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 7, page 450, footnote 6 (Image)

Lactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus, Dionysius, Apostolic Teaching and Constitutions, 2 Clement, Early Liturgies

Constitutions of the Holy Apostles (HTML)

Book VI (HTML)

Sec. I.—On Heresies (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 3162 (In-Text, Margin)

... than he who ventures to oppose the royal power, although neither of them goes unpunished. For neither did Absalom nor Abdadan escape without punishment; nor Corah and Dathan. The former rose against David, and strove concerning the kingdom; the latter against Moses, concerning pre-eminence. And they both spake evil; Absalom of his father David, as of an unjust judge, saying to every one: “Thy words are good, but there is no one that will hear thee, and do thee justice. Who will make me a ruler?”[2 Samuel 15:3] But Abdadan: “I have no part in David, nor any inheritance in the son of Jesse.” It is plain that he could not endure to be under David ’s government, of whom God spake: “I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who will do all my ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 13, page 122, footnote 3 (Image)

Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles to the Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, Thessalonians, Timothy, Titus, and Philemon

The Commentary and Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Galatians and Ephesians. (HTML)

Homilies on Ephesians. (HTML)

Ephesians 4.31 (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 356 (In-Text, Margin)

... unfit for anything. So also are souls of this nature. What else is wickedness, but a jaundice of the soul? Wickedness then has no strength in it, indeed it has not. Have ye a mind that I again make what I am saying plain to you by an instance, by setting before you the portraits of a treacherous and a guileless man? Absalom was a treacherous man, and “stole all men’s hearts.” (2 Sam. xv. 6.) And observe how great was his treachery. “He went about,” it saith, “and said, ‘Hast thou no judgment?’”[2 Samuel 15:3] wishing to conciliate every one to himself. But David was guileless. What then? Look at the end of them both, look, how full of utter madness was the former! For inasmuch as he looked solely to the hurt of his father, in all other things he was ...