Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
1 Kings 20:42
There are 2 footnotes for this reference.
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 3, page 305, footnote 7 (Image)
Theodoret, Jerome and Gennadius, Rufinus and Jerome
The Ecclesiastical History, Dialogues, and Letters of Theodoret. (HTML)
Letters of the Blessed Theodoret, Bishop of Cyprus. (HTML)
To Bishop Romulus. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 1973 (In-Text, Margin)
You have reminded me of the ancient story, and remarked how the King of the Syrians, bethinking him of the loving kindness of the kings of Israel, assumed the form of a suppliant and failed not to obtain his petition. Remember therefore, sir, the divine wrath. God delivered Ahab to utter destruction for using mercy, and delivered his sentence through the mouth of the prophet, saying “Thy life shall go for his life and thy people for his people.”[1 Kings 20:42] We are thus commanded to temper mercy with justice, since not every kind of mercy is pleasing to the God of all. The present state of affairs specially requires prudent council; for we are contending on behalf of the divine doctrines, wherein we have the hope of our ...
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 11, page 539, footnote 2 (Image)
Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins, John Cassian
The Works of John Cassian. (HTML)
The Conferences of John Cassian. Part III. Containing Conferences XVIII.-XXIV. (HTML)
Conference XXIV. Conference of Abbot Abraham. On Mortification. (HTML)
Chapter XVII. How the weaker part of the soul is the first to yield to the devil's temptations. (HTML)
... 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 20:42] 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 ...