1 Kings 15:24
And Saul said to Samuel: I have sinned because I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord, and thy words, fearing the people, and obeying their voice.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Dixitque Saul ad Samuelem : Peccavi, quia prævaricatus sum sermonem Domini et verba tua, timens populum, et obediens voci eorum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ εἶπεν Σαοὺλ πρὸς Σαμουήλ Ἡμάρτηκα· ὅτι παρέβην τὸν λόγον Κυρίου καὶ τὸ ῥῆμά σου, ὅτι ἐφοβήθην τὸν λαὸν καὶ ἤκουσα τῆς φωνῆς αὐτῶν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיֹּ֨אמֶר שָׁא֤וּל אֶל שְׁמוּאֵל֙ חָטָ֔אתִי כִּֽי עָבַ֥רְתִּי אֶת פִּֽי יְהוָ֖ה וְאֶת דְּבָרֶ֑יךָ כִּ֤י יָרֵ֨אתִי֙ אֶת הָעָ֔ם וָאֶשְׁמַ֖ע בְּקוֹלָֽם
Haydock's commentary
Voice: miserable excuse for a king, who ought to prevent the sins of his people! (Calmet)
Saul's transgression seems less than David's; but the one repents, and the other proudly defends what he had done. (Du Hamel)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Reply to Faustus the Manichæan, Faustus states his objections to the morality of the law and the prophets, and Augustin seeks by the application of the type and the allegory to explain away the moral difficulties of the Old Testament
67. It must have been on account of this inspection of the depths of David’s heart by the Spirit of God that, when on being reproved by the prophet, he said, I have sinned, he was considered worthy to be told, immediately after this brief confession, that he was pardoned, that is, that he was admitted to eternal salvation. For he did not escape the correction of the fatherly rod, of which God spoke in His threatening, that, while by his confession he obtained eternal exemption, he might be tried by temporal chastisement. …