Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

2 Samuel 21:1

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 413, footnote 3 (Image)

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CCEL Footnote 4921 (In-Text, Margin)

... God’s ministers. If you say they were sheep, they will not possibly be such sheep as can enjoy full liberty and feed without fear of wolves. And it will be plain to you that sheep indeed they are, but wandering sheep: that they are on the right hand, but do not stand there: they flee until the High Priest dies and descending into hell liberates their souls. The Gibeonites met the children of Israel, and although other nations were slaughtered, they were kept for hewers of wood and drawers of water.[2 Samuel 21:1] And of such value were they in God’s eyes, that the family of Saul was destroyed for the wrong done to them. Where would you put them? Among the goats? But they were not slain, and they were avenged by the determination of God. Among the sheep? But ...