Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

1 Kings 1:2

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 89, footnote 6 (Image)

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CCEL Footnote 1317 (In-Text, Margin)

2. But that I may not seem to quote only profane literature, listen to the mystical teaching of the sacred writings. Once David had been a man of war, but at seventy age had chilled him so that nothing would make him warm. A girl is accordingly sought from the coasts of Israel—Abishag the Shunamite—to sleep with the king and warm his aged frame.[1 Kings 1:1-4] Does it not seem to you—if you keep to the letter that killeth —like some farcical story or some broad jest from an Atellan play? A chilly old man is wrapped up in blankets, and only grows warm in a girl’s embrace. Bathsheba was still living, Abigail was still left, and the remainder of those wives and concubines whose ...