2 Samuel 12:11 (WEB)
“This is what the LORD says: ‘Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he will lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.
Catechism · 1
“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.
Fathers and councils · 3
Augustine of Hippo
“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
“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.
Read the whole comment“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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Cross-references · 2
Cited together in Catechism §1736.
Cited together in Catechism §1736.