Where the Fathers quote 2Kgs 12
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42Kgs 12:4
John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 55:539…d. For the prophet Nathan says in his parable: A traveler came to a rich man, and he, sparing his own, took the poor man’s sheep and slaughtered it (2 Kings 12:4), calling the wife a sheep because of the immaculate marria…
Theodoret of Cyrrhus c. 386–458PG 81:695…garments torn wailing and b manna and incense were in their hands to bring into the house of the lord salem both the hebrew and the syrian call silo he teaches moreover how ishmael pierced them…
OrigenesPG 16:2369…clothes rent and d lamenting and offerings and frankincense in their hands to bring into the house of the lord and there went out ismael the son of nathania from masphia going and weeping and it…
62Kgs 12:6
OrigenesPG 16:2393…he carried away captive from jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two souls in the three and twentieth year of nebuchadrezzar nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the jews seven hundred forty and…
72Kgs 12:7
John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 55:35…Thou hast killed Uriah the Hettite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife. And now the sword shall not depart from thy house for ever (2 Kings 12:7-11). Thou didst divide a strange house with the sword: I will…
82Kgs 12:8
John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 50:769…unishment. See, then, how God everywhere reproaches the wicked for the honors of this life. "I gave you," He says, "all that belonged to your Master" (2 Reg. 12:8); and again to the priests in the time of Eli, speaking of…
John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 63:147D…e more severely tormented; but those who are in poverty, not so. And that this is so, hear what He says to David: "Did I not give thee all thy master’s house?"—2 Reg. 12.8. When therefore you see a young man hav…
112Kgs 12:11
Origen c. 185–c. 253PG 12:959…and the lord was angry with indignation against israel and delivered them into the hands of them that spoiled them as long as anyone serves god he is not delivered into the hands of those that…
Cyril of Alexandria d. 444PG 71:197…of egypt into their own bosom as the earth as an eagle upon the house of the lord because they have transgressed my covenant and have sinned against my law lxxxv these things as i feel…
John of Damascus c. 675–749PG 96:105A…non adjecit cognoscere eam. » II Reg. XII, 11-13. — « Dixit Nathan ad David: Hæc dicit D…
122Kgs 12:12
John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 63:217B…ded publicly before everyone, friends and enemies and angels. For indeed He did not speak only to David, "What you did in secret, I will make manifest to all" (2 Reg. 12.12), but to us all as well. You feared men…
132Kgs 12:13
Clement of Rome d. c. 100PG 1:629A…sincere disposition: "I have sinned against the Lord," the Holy Spirit answers: "The Lord has also forgiven you your sin; be of good cheer, you shall not die" (II Reg. XII, 13). Recognize, therefore, O bishop, your…
John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 48:1077A…ay the tyrant? Did he make any pronouncement against the prophet? Did he not confess his servitude even in his kingdom, saying: I have sinned against the Lord (2 Reg. 12:13)? And the prophet, seeing his repentanc…
John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 49:327…ved the rebuke of the holy prophet Nathan, and immediately after the rebuke had shown true conversion, and had said, I have sinned against the Lord (2 Kings 12:13); immediately in one moment of time a word sincerely uttere…
John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 55:227B…cellent soldiers do; but if we have even been captured, it is necessary to cut it away quickly, just as David did, who through repentance severed its strength (II Reg. XII, 13). For he had been encompassed by it, bu…
John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 55:437D…thought, so that they may not spare my ignorances? (Eccl. 23. 2). See David, not making excuses when he sinned, but saying: I have sinned against the Lord (2 Reg. 12. 13). And yet he could have said, "Why was…
John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 57:31…s those great men also became better and friends with God. For David, after his sin, once he enjoyed the words, then he came to that most beautiful repentance ⟦2 Reg. 12. 13⟧: and the apostles also became what the…
John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 58:995D…so also those great men regarding God, having become such, were indeed made better. For David, after hearing the word of God, rushed to that saving repentance (2 Reg. 12: 13). And the apostle, by the pact of what…
John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 63:741…elf out on the ocean of my Master's lovingkindness. And what are you saying? Tell me. You have heard the prophet saying, The Lord also has put away your sin (2 Reg. XII, 13). What more do you seek? "I do not…
Theodoret of Cyrrhus c. 386–458PG 80:1089A…hat history also teaches. For when David had said, "I have sinned before the Lord," Nathan answered, "And the Lord has taken away thy sin, thou shalt not die" (II Reg. XII, 13). Yet he threatened that he would fill…
John of Damascus c. 675–749PG 96:129A…). I have cast myself into the sea of the Master's philanthropy. And what do you wish, tell me? You heard the prophet saying: "The Lord has taken away my sin" (II Reg. XII, 13). Not only do I seek this; I seek my be…
John of Damascus c. 675–749PG 96:145C…s transgression, and said: "I have sinned against the Lord." And Nathan, having seen his swift repentance, says to him, "And the Lord has taken away your sin" (II Reg. XII, 13). For since the repentance was swift, t…
Theodore the Studite 759–826PG 99:763C…uke. He did not imitate David, who, when rebuked by the prophet Nathan for the charge of adultery, broke forth into that cry: “I have sinned against the Lord” (2 Reg. xii, 13), for whose humility the Lord took away…
Antonius Melissa fl. 11th centuryPG 136:825A…David said to Nathan the prophet: "I have sinned against the Lord." And Nathan said to David: "The Lord also hath taken away thy sin, and thou shalt not die" (2 Reg. xii. 13). "If any iniquity be in thy hand, put…
162Kgs 12:16
John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 56:301C…lso wish all to hear with patient ears of the heart. David, a great king, bore the illness of his beloved son, whom he loved as his own soul, most impatiently (2 Reg. 12. 16 seqq.): and when human aids were now of…
John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 61:425B…hich is greater than fasting: to abstain from all malice. David also sinned; let us see, therefore, how he too repented. He sat for three whole days in ashes (2 Reg. XII, 16). But he was not doing that for his sin…
172Kgs 12:17
John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 48:1091…think the things of god but the things of men he who set his face to go up to jerusalem that he might grant salvation to all through his passion he who through the prophets also…
202Kgs 12:20
John of Damascus c. 675–749PG 96:27A…dead." II Reg. i, 26, 27. — "I am in distress for you, my brother Jonathan: you were very dear to me. Your love was wonderful to me, above the love of women." II Reg. xii, 20-23. — "David rose from the earth, and wash…
212Kgs 12:21
Theodoret of Cyrrhus c. 386–458PG 80:841…of jodae the priest and put him to death on his bed and he died and they buried him in the city of david but they did not bury him in the sepulcher of the kings…
282Kgs 12:28
John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 56:303…Lord was done, it is foolish and impious to weary the soul with useless lamentation,” saying thus: “I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me” (2 Kings 12:28). Behold an example of greatness of soul and of virtue! If…