Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

2 Samuel 15:10

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 8, page 195, footnote 3 (Image)

Augustine: Expositions on the Psalms

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CCEL Footnote 1860 (In-Text, Margin)

... is his heart made, in order that God may be good to him. For, “How good is the God of Israel to the upright of heart!” Moreover, brethren, listen. Sometimes God in this world chastiseth for his sin him that He pardoneth in the world to come. For even to David himself, to whom it had been already said by the Prophet, “Thy sin is put away,” there happened certain things which God had threatened for that very sin. For his son Abessalom against him waged bloody war, and many ways humbled his father.[2 Samuel 15:10] He was walking in grief, in the tribulation of his humiliation, so resigned to God, that, ascribing to Him all that was just, he confessed that he was suffering nothing undeservedly, having now an heart upright, to which God was not displeasing. A ...