1 Samuel 20:42 (WEB)
Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, because we have both sworn in the LORD’s name, saying, ‘The LORD is between me and you, and between my offspring and your offspring, forever.’” He arose and departed; and Jonathan went into the city.
Fathers and councils · 2
“David also and Jonathan establish a sign between them, that they may not disagree with a difference of thought: and that which in Latin is expressed, between both, in the middle of both, the Greek hath expressed in the same word, which is ‡νὰ μ™σον.” — editor's note: 1 Sam. xx. 42.
Read the whole comment“But no one learns, unless he has had experience, how difficult it is both to get rid of a habit of swearing, and never to do rashly what necessity sometimes compels him to do.” — editor's note: Augustin is somewhat perplexed about the meaning, but decides the injunction to be directed against the abuse of the oath, not to forbid it wholly. The oath…
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Cross-references · 12
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.17.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.17.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.17.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.17.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.17.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.17.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.17.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.17.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.17.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.17.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.17.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.17.