Holy Scripture
1 Kings 13:28
A church father on this verse
“It is not to be imagined that one has been so annihilated by the teeth of a beast that his soul has then been snatched away to infernal punishment, since the same lion who killed his very body guarded it. Even the beast of burden on which the man had been riding was unhurt and with great courage stood in the presence…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
28And he went and found the body cast in the way, and the ass and the lion were standing by the body: and the lion had not devoured the body of the man of God, and had not torn the ass.
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26And the prophet that turned him back out of the way heard, and said, This is the man of God who rebelled against the word of the Lord.
— 1 Kings 13:28 —
29And the prophet took up the body of the man of God, and laid it on his ass; and the prophet brought him back to his city, to bury him in his own tomb,
30and they bewailed him, saying, Alas, brother.