Holy Scripture

1 Samuel 25:8

A church father on this verse
“Now therefore let the young men find favor in your eyes, etc. Because, they say, you teach the people, which is to intellectually shear the flock, ensure that even the disciples of Christ preaching may find in you the grace of faith and good action. For indeed we come to preach uniquely good things in the light of gra…”
Bede, 8th c. — Commentary on Samuel

Source: Septuagint

Original

8Ask thy servants, and they will tell thee. Let then thy servants find grace in thine eyes, for we are come on a good day; give, we pray thee, whatsoever thy hand may find, to thy son David.

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6And thus shall ye say, May thou and thy house seasonably prosper, and all thine be in prosperity.

7And now, behold, I have heard that thy shepherds who were with us in the wilderness are shearing thy sheep, and we hindered them not, neither did we demand anything from them all the time they were in Carmel.

— 1 Samuel 25:8 —

9So the servants come and speak these words to Nabal, according to all these words in the name of David.

10And Nabal sprang up, and answered the servants of David, and said, Who is David? and who is the son of Jesse? nowadays there is abundance of servants who depart every one from his master.

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