Holy Scripture

1 Samuel 2:6

A church father on this verse
“Certainly his making alive is to take place after he has killed. As, therefore, it is by death that he kills, it is by the resurrection that he will make alive. Now it is the flesh which is killed by death; the flesh, therefore, will be revived by the resurrection. Surely if killing means taking away life from the fle…”
Tertullian, 3th c. — ON THE RESURRECTION OF THE FLESH 28

Source: Septuagint

Original

6The Lord kills and makes alive; He brings down to the grave, and brings up.

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In context

4The bow of the mighty has waxed feeble, And the weak have girded themselves with strength.

5They that were full of bread are brought low; And the hungry have forsaken the land; For the barren has born seven, And she that abounded in children has waxed feeble.

— 1 Samuel 2:6 —

7The Lord makes poor, and makes rich; He brings low, and lifts up.

8He lifts up the poor from the earth, And raises the needy from the dunghill; To seat him with the princes of the people, And causing them to inherit the throne of glory:

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