1 Samuel 25:34 (WEB)
For indeed, as the LORD the God of Israel lives, who has withheld me from harming you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, surely there wouldn’t have been left to Nabal by the morning light so much as one who urinates on a wall.”
Fathers and councils · 2
Augustine of Hippo
“Or, truly, because David swore to put Nabal to death, and, upon more considerate clemency, did it not, shall we therefore say that he is to be imitated, so that we may swear to do a thing which afterwards we may see to be not meet to be done?” — editor's note: 1 Sam. xxv. 22–35
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences XI–XVII XVII.25Conference XVII
“…executing it, saying: “As the Lord liveth, if thou hadst not quickly come to meet me there had not been left to Nabal by the morning light a single male.”” — editor's note: 1 Sam. xxv. 22, 34.
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