1 Kings 8:4
Then all the ancients of Israel being assembled, came to Samuel to Ramatha.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Congregati ergo universi majores natu Israël, venerunt ad Samuelem in Ramatha.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ συναθροίζονται ἄνδρες Ἰσραὴλ καὶ παραγίνονται εἰς Ἁρμαθάιμ πρὸς Σαμουήλ,
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיִּֽתְקַבְּצ֔וּ כֹּ֖ל זִקְנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וַיָּבֹ֥אוּ אֶל שְׁמוּאֵ֖ל הָרָמָֽתָה
The Fathers on this verse
St Jerome Against Jovinianus, Book I
48. When Theophrastus thus discourses, are there any of us, Christians, whose conversation is in heaven and who daily say “I long to be dissolved, and to be with Christ,” whom he does not put to the blush? Shall a joint-heir of Christ really long for human heirs? And shall he desire children and delight himself in a long line of descendants, who will perhaps fall into the clutches of Antichrist, when we read thatMoses andSamuel preferred other men to their own sons, and did not count as their children those whom they saw to be displeasing to God? When Cicero after divorcing Terentia was requested byHirtius to marry his sister, he set the matter altogether on one side, and said that he could not possibly devote himself to a wife and to philosophy. …