1 Samuel 28:13 (WEB)
The king said to her, “Don’t be afraid! What do you see?” The woman said to Saul, “I see a god coming up out of the earth.”
Fathers and councils · 6
Tertullian
“For, indeed, it was no less than this that was anciently permitted to the Pythonic (or ventriloquistic) spirit—even to represent the soul of Samuel, when Saul consulted the dead, after (losing the living) God.” — editor's note: 1 Sam. xxviii. 6–16.
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Justin Martyr
“And that the souls survive, I have shown to you from the fact that the soul of Samuel was called up by the witch, as Saul demanded.” — editor's note: This demonstration is not given. [It could not be. The woman was herself frightened by the direct interposition of God. 1 Sam. xxviii. 12, 13.]
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Basil the Great
“And the witch, when she called up the required spirits for Saul, is said to have seen gods.” — editor's note: 1 Sam. xxviii. 13.
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Jerome
“Crushed by the authority and eloquence of Theophilus they are now like demon-spirits only able to mutter and that from out of the earth.” — editor's note: Cf. 1 Sam. xxviii. 13.
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Augustine of Hippo
“For Samuel the Prophet, appearing to Saul when living, predicted even what should befall the king: although some think it was not Samuel himself, that could have been by magical arts evoked, but that some spirit, meet for so evil works, did figure his…” — editor's note: 1 Sam. xxviii. 11–19
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Gregory of Nyssa
“For it says, “Let the gods that have not made the heavens and the earth perish, and be cast down beneath the earth”; and, “all the gods of the heathen are devils”; and the witch in her incantations, when she brings up for Saul the spirits that he sought for, says that she “saw gods.”” — editor's note: 1 Sam. xxviii. 13.
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Cross-references · 18
Cited together in Letters Letter 189 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Letters Letter 97.
Cited together in On Care to Be Had for the Dead Chapter 18.
Cited together in Letters Letter 97.
Cited together in Letters Letter 189 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Letters Letter 97.
Cited together in Letters Letter 97.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 105.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 105.
Cited together in Letters Letter 97.
Cited together in Letters Letter 189 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Letters Letter 97.
Cited together in Letters Letter 189 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Letters Letter 97.
Cited together in Letters Letter 189 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Letters Letter 189 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Letters Letter 189.
Cited together in On Care to Be Had for the Dead Chapter 18.