1 Samuel 24:4 (WEB)
David’s men said to him, “Behold, the day of which the LORD said to you, ‘Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, and you shall do to him as it shall seem good to you.’” Then David arose and cut off the skirt of Saul’s robe secretly.
Fathers and councils · 3
Augustine of Hippo
“For their evil disposition was shown: but Saul not even after their betrayal could seize David; but rather in a certain cave in that very country, when into his hands Saul had been given to slay, David spared him, and that which he had in his power he did not.” — editor's note: 1 Sam. xxiv. 4.
Read the whole comment“…the one beneficent, the other ungrateful: he endured him with so much mildness, that when he had gotten him into his hands him he touched not, hurt not.…What reference hath this to Christ?” — editor's note: 1 Sam. xxiv. 4, 7.
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Gregory the Great
“Which thing we shall shew the better if we bring forward what David did (1 Sam. xxiv. 4 seq.).” — the author cites it
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Cross-references · 9
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.5.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.5.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.5.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.5.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.5.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.5.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.5.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.5.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.5.