1 Kings 19:12
She let him down through a window. And he went and fled away and escaped.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- deposuit eum per fenestram. Porro ille abiit et aufugit, atque salvatus est.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ κατάγει ἡ Μελχὸλ τὸν Δαυεὶδ διὰ τῆς θυρίδος, καὶ ἀπῆλθεν καὶ ἔφυγεν καὶ σώζεται.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַתֹּ֧רֶד מִיכַ֛ל אֶת דָּוִ֖ד בְּעַ֣ד הַחַלּ֑וֹן וַיֵּ֥לֶךְ וַיִּבְרַ֖ח וַיִּמָּלֵֽט
The Fathers on this verse
St John Chrysostom Treatise Concerning the Christian Priesthood, Book I
What is the wrong that I have done thee, since I have determined to embark from this point upon the sea of apology? Is it that I misled you and concealed my purpose? Yet I did it for the benefit of thyself who wast deceived, and of those to whom I surrendered you by means of this deceit. For if the evil of deception is absolute, and it is never right to make use of it, I am prepared to pay any penalty you please: or rather, as you will never endure to inflict punishment upon me, I shall subject myself to the same condemnation which is pronounced by judges on evil-doers when their accusers have convicted them. …
Socrates Scholasticus Book III, Quotations from Athanasius' 'Defense of his Flight.'
On this occasion Athanasius read to those present the Defense which he had composed some time before in justification of his flight; a few passages from which it may be of service to introduce here, leaving the entire production, which is too long to be transcribed, to be sought out and perused by the studious. See the daring enormities of the impious persons! Such are their proceedings: and yet instead of blushing at their former clumsy intrigues against us, they even now abuse us for having effected our escape out of their murderous hands; nay, are grievously vexed that they were unable to put us out of the way altogether. …