Holy Scripture

1 Samuel 9:5

A church father on this verse
“But while holy men cannot convert others through their preaching, they begin to fear intensely for themselves—lest they displease Almighty God in the very thing by which they thought they were greatly pleasing Him. And it often happens that the hearts of new preachers are so frightened that they now resolve to abandon…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Commentary on 1 Kings, Book 4, Chapter 4

Source: Septuagint

Original

5And when they came to Siph, then Saul said to his young man that was with him, Come and let us return, lest my father leave the asses, and take care for us.

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In context

3And the asses of Kish the father of Saul were lost; and Kish said to Saul his son, Take with thee one of the young men, and arise ye, and go and seek the asses.

4And they went through Mount Ephraim, and they went through the land of Shalishah, and found them not: and they passed through the land of Shaalim, and they were not there: and they passed through the land of Jamin, and found them not.

— 1 Samuel 9:5 —

6And the young man said to him, Behold now, there is a man of God in this city, and the man is of high repute; all that he shall speak will surely come to pass: now then let us go, that he may tell us our way on which we have set out.

7And Saul said to his young man that was with him, Lo, then, we will go; but what shall we bring the man of God? for the loaves are spent out of our vessels, and we have nothing more with us that belongs to us to bring to the man of God.

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