1 Samuel 2:23 (WEB)
He said to them, “Why do you do such things? For I hear of your evil dealings from all these people.
Fathers and councils · 2
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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