1 Samuel 26:9 (WEB)
David said to Abishai, “Don’t destroy him, for who can stretch out his hand against the LORD’s anointed, and be guiltless?”
Fathers and councils · 2
Augustine of Hippo
“This sin did not David, when he was suffering Saul for persecutor.” — editor's note: 1 Sam. xxiv. 5, xxvi. 9.
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Ambrose of Milan
“And he added: “As the Lord liveth, unless the Lord shall smite him, or his day shall come to die, or he shall die in battle, and it be laid to me, the Lord forbid that I should stretch out my hand against the Lord’s anointed.”” — editor's note: 1 Sam. [1 Kings] xxvi. 8–10.
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Cross-references · 4
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy III.5.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy III.5.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy III.5.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy III.5.
