Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers — Second Series Vol. 11 — Of the error of Saul and of Ahab, by which they were deceived through lack of discretion.
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Second Series Vol. 11
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Lastly, the man who in the judgment of God was the first to be worthy of the kingdom of His people Israel, because he was lacking in this "eye" of discretion, was, as if his whole body were full of darkness, actually cast down from the kingdom while, being deceived by the darkness of this "light," and in error, he imagined that his own offerings were more acceptable to God than obedience to the command of Samuel, and met with an occasion of falling in that very matter in which he had hoped to propitiate the Divine Majesty. [1166] And ignorance, I say, of this discretion led Ahab the ki…
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