1 Samuel 28:15 (WEB)
Samuel said to Saul, “Why have you disturbed me, to bring me up?” Saul answered, “I am very distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God has departed from me, and answers me no more, by prophets, or by dreams. Therefore I have called you, that you may make known to me what I shall do.”
Fathers and councils · 4
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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John Chrysostom
“And that miserable man, for instance, until David departed, burst not forth into that piteous cry, bewail ing himself and saying, “I am sore distressed, and the Philistines make war against me, and the Lord is departed from me.”” — editor's note: 1 Sam. xxviii. 15.
Read the whole comment“For when he had disobeyed Samuel, and had caused the burnt-offering to be offered, when he was not present, being blamed for it, he says, “The compulsion from the enemy was too great,”and when he ought to have bewailed, he felt as though he had done nothing.” — editor's note: Cf. 1 Sam. xiii. 12; and xxviii. 15.
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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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Cross-references · 5
Cited together in On Care to Be Had for the Dead Chapter 18.
Cited together in On Care to Be Had for the Dead Chapter 18.
Cited together in On Care to Be Had for the Dead Chapter 18.
Cited together in On Care to Be Had for the Dead Chapter 18.
Cited together in On Care to Be Had for the Dead Chapter 18.