Holy Scripture

1 Samuel 3:14

A church father on this verse
“20. For since the sentence of just severity is usually tempered by clemency, it is a judgment of great strictness where the sentence of punishment is affirmed by repetition. For He foretold above to Eli when, through a man of God, without naming him, He announced the sentence of his rejection. But because now too He s…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Commentary on 1 Kings, Book 2, Chapter 4

Source: Septuagint

Original

14And it shall not go on so; I have sworn to the house of Eli, the iniquity of the house of Eli shall not be atoned for with incense or sacrifices forever.

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In context

12In that day I will raise up against Eli all things that I have said against his house; I will begin, and I will make an end.

13And I have told him that I will be avenged on his house perpetually for the iniquities of his sons, because his sons spoke evil against God, and he did not admonish them.

— 1 Samuel 3:14 —

15And Samuel slept till morning, and rose early in the morning, and opened the doors of the house of the Lord; and Samuel feared to tell Eli the vision.

16And Eli said to Samuel, Samuel, my son; and he said, Behold, here am I.

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