1 Samuel 2:12 (WEB)
Now the sons of Eli were wicked men. They didn’t know the LORD.
Fathers and councils · 6
Gregory of Nyssa
“And, moreover, in the opposite sense, too, the same persons are called “sons of Eli,” and “sons of Belial,” the appellation of “sons” being easily adapted to either idea.” — editor's note: 1 Sam. ii. 12. The phrase is υἱοὶ λοιμοί, or “pestilent sons,” as in the LXX. Gregory’s argument would seem to require the reading υἱοὶ λοιμοῦ.
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John Chrysostom
“For He speaketh of a different kind of knowledge, when He saith, “ye know not”; as when He saith, “The sons of Eli were wicked sons, they knew not the Lord” ( 1 Sam. ii. 12 ); and again, “Israel doth not know Me.” ( Isa. i. 3.)” — the author cites it
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Jerome
“They must not, that is, follow the example of the sons of Eli who lay with the women in the vestibule of the Temple and, supposing religion to consist in plunder, diverted to the gratification of their own appetites all the best parts of the victims.” — editor's note: 1 Sam. ii. 12–17, 22.
Read the whole comment“Eli also was a holy priest, but he had sons of whom we read in the Hebrew that they lay with the women that assembled at the door of the tabernacle of God, and that like you they shamelessly claimed for themselves the right to minister in His sanctuary.” — editor's note: 1 Sam. ii. 12–17, 22.
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Tertullian
“Eli breaks his neck before the temple doors, his sons fall in battle, his daughter-in-law expires in child-birth: for such was the blow which had been deserved at the hand of God by the shameless house, the defrauder of the fleshly sacrifices.” — editor's note: 1 Sam. ii. 12–17, 22–25.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“…violate the sacrifices by an untimely exaction of the first fruits of the cauldrons, although he did not condone their impiety, but frequently rebuked them; the other, because he only touched the ark, which was being thrown off the cart by the ox, and though he saved it, was himself destroyed, in God’s jealousy for…” — editor's note: 1 Sam. ii. 12, 15, 23.
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Cross-references · 7
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Cited together in Against Eunomius III.6.
Cited together in Against Eunomius III.6.
Cited together in Against Eunomius III.6.