Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
1 Kings 20
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 11, page 309, footnote 4 (Image)
Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins, John Cassian
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Chapter III. Of the error of Saul and of Ahab, by which they were deceived through lack of discretion. (HTML)
... ignorance, I say, of this discretion led Ahab the king of Israel after a triumph and splendid victory which had been granted to him by the favour of God to fancy that mercy on his part was better than the stern execution of the divine command, and, as it seemed to him, a cruel rule: and moved by this consideration, while he desired to temper a bloody victory with mercy, he was on account of his indiscriminating clemency rendered full of darkness in his whole body, and condemned irreversibly to death.[1 Kings 20]