Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

2 Samuel 17:4

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 51, footnote 19 (Image)

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CCEL Footnote 833 (In-Text, Margin)

... so because Christ had not yet broken open the door of paradise, nor quenched with his blood the flaming sword and the whirling of the guardian cherubim. (Hence in the story of Dives and Lazarus, Abraham and the beggar, though really in a place of refreshment, are described as being in hell.) And David, who, after interceding in vain for the life of his infant child, refused to weep for it, knowing that it had not sinned, did well to weep for a son who had been a parricide—in will, if not in deed.[2 Samuel 17:1-4] And when we read that, for Moses and Aaron, lamentation was made after ancient custom, this ought not to surprise us, for even in the Acts of the Apostles, in the full blaze of the gospel, we see that the brethren at Jerusalem made great lamentation ...