Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

2 Samuel 24

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 14, page 458, footnote 2 (Image)

Chrysostom: Homilies on the Gospel of St. John and the Epistle to the Hebrews

The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Epistle to the Hebrews. (HTML)

Hebrews 10.26,27 (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 3170 (In-Text, Margin)

[4.] Next he adds testimony, saying, (ver. 31, 30) “It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the Living God.” “For” it is written: “Vengeance [belongeth] unto Me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge His people.” “Let us fall,” it is said, “into the hands of the Lord, and not into the hands of men.” (Ecclus. ii. 18.[2 Samuel 24:14]) But if ye repent not, ye shall “fall into the hands of” God: that is fearful: it is nothing, to “fall into the hands of men.” When, he means, we see any man punished here, let us not be terrified at the things present, but shudder at the things to come. “For according to His mercy, so is His wrath.” And, “His ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 278, footnote 6 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

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To Ctesiphon. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 3862 (In-Text, Margin)

... dishonour?” Bring a yet graver charge against God and ask Him why, when Esau and Jacob were still in the womb, He said: “Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.” Accuse Him of injustice because, when Achan the son of Carmi stole part of the spoil of Jericho, He butchered so many thousands for the fault of one. Ask Him why for the sin of the sons of Eli the people were well-nigh annihilated and the ark captured. And why, when David sinned by numbering the people, so many thousands lost their lives.[2 Samuel 24] Or lastly make your own the favorite cavil of your associate Porphyry, and ask how God can be described as pitiful and of great mercy when from Adam to Moses and from Moses to the coming of Christ He has suffered all nations to die in ignorance of ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 13, page 384, footnote 2 (Image)

Gregory the Great II, Ephriam Syrus, Aphrahat

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Aphrahat:  Select Demonstrations. (HTML)

Of Pastors. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1021 (In-Text, Margin)

... was taken from the sheep to tend his people. So he tended them in the integrity of his heart and by the skill of his hands he guided them.   And when David numbered the flock of his sheep, wrath came upon them, and they began to be destroyed. Then David delivered himself over on behalf of his sheep, when he prayed, saying:— O Lord God, I have sinned in that I have numbered Israel.  Let Thy hand be on me and on my father’s house.  These innocent sheep, in what have they sinned?[2 Samuel 24:17] So also all the diligent pastors used thus to give themselves on behalf of their sheep.