Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

2 Chronicles 35:24

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 280, footnote 7 (Image)

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CCEL Footnote 3882 (In-Text, Margin)

... because their faults are eclipsed by their virtues. In fact Zacharias is punished with dumbness, Job is condemned out of his own mouth, and Jehoshaphat and Josiah who are beyond a doubt described as righteous are narrated to have done things displeasing to the Lord. The first leagued himself with the ungodly Ahab and brought upon himself the rebuke of Micaiah; and the second—though forbidden by the word of the Lord spoken by Jeremiah—went against Pharaoh-Nechoh, king of Egypt, and was slain by him.[2 Chronicles 35:20-24] Yet they are both called righteous. Of the rest this is not the time to write; for you have asked me not for a treatise but for a letter. For a complete refutation I require leisure and then I hope to destroy all their cavils by the help of Christ. ...