2 Samuel 12:10

• §1736Article 3 · Man's FreedomRead at vatican.va

  “The prophet Nathan questioned David in the same way after he committed adultery with the wife of Uriah and had him murdered.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. 2 Sam 12:7-15.

Augustine of Hippo

• Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 51

  “For even to David himself, to whom it had been already said by the Prophet, “Thy sin is put away,” there happened certain things which God had threatened for that very sin.” — editor's note: [Compare 2 Sam. xii. 10.—C.]

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• Augustine of Hippo, Harmony of the Gospels II.5Book II

  “Consequently Matthew traces the succession downwards from David through Solomon, in connection with whose mother it was that he sinned; while Luke carries the genealogy upwards to the same David through Nathan, by which prophet God took away his sin.” — editor's note: 2 Sam. xii. 1–14.

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Tertullian

• Tertullian, On Modesty Chapter 6

  “You will maintain communion, too, with the murderer: because Ahab, by deprecation, washed away (the guilt of) Naboth’s blood; and David, by confession, purged Uriah’s slaughter, together with its cause—adultery.” — editor's note: See 2 Sam. xi.; xii. 1–13.

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• Tertullian, On Modesty Chapter 21

  “So, too, had the prophets (of old) granted to the repentant the pardon of murder, and therewith of adultery, inasmuch as they gave, at the same time, manifest proofs of severity.” — editor's note: Comp. 2 Sam. xii. 1–14, etc.

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• Genesis 3:13

  Cited together in Catechism §1736.

• Genesis 4:10

  Cited together in Catechism §1736.