2 Samuel 12:5 (WEB)
David’s anger burned hot against the man, and he said to Nathan, “As the LORD lives, the man who has done this deserves to die!
Fathers and councils · 4
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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Gregory the Great
“…hence it was that Nathan the prophet, having come to take the king to task, asked his judgment as if concerning the cause of a poor man against a rich one (2 Sam. xii. 4, 5, seq.), that the king might first pronounce sentence, and afterwards hear of his own guilt, to the end that he might by no means contradict the…” — the author cites it
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Cross-references · 6
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.3.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.3.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.3.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.3.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.3.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.3.