Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
1 Kings 20:31
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 11, page 539, footnote 2 (Image)
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... the empty praise of his clemency, and said: “If he still liveth, he is my brother;” and after this fashion they can deceive us also by the error of that reasonable part, and make us incur the displeasure of God owing to that from which we were hoping that we might gain a reward and receive the recompense of goodness, and to us too the same rebuke may be addressed: “Because thou hast let go from thy hand a man who was worthy of death, thy life shall be for his life, and thy people for his people”[1 Kings 20:31-32] Or when the unclean spirit says: “I will go forth, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets,” he certainly spread the nets of deception by means of the reasonable feeling which he knew to be exposed to his deadly wiles. And this ...