Holy Scripture
1 Kings 3:23
A church father on this verse
“The two women indicate to us the church and the synagogue. The latter, after it tried to suppress the sacrament of human redemption and persecuted and killed the Redeemer through false accusations, claims, nevertheless, that its child should still be alive, that is, that the Jewish people should still be pleasing and…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
23And the king said to them, Thou sayest, This is my son, even the living one, and this woman’s son is the dead one: and thou sayest, No, but the living is my son, and the dead is thy son.
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In context
21And I arose in the morning to suckle my son, and he was dead: and, behold, I considered him in the morning, and, behold, it was not my son whom I bore.
22And the other woman said, No, but the living is my son, and the dead is thy son. So they spoke before the king.
— 1 Kings 3:23 —
24And the king said, Fetch a sword. And they brought a sword before the king.
25And the king said, Divide the live child, the suckling, in two; and give half of it to one, and half of it to the other.