{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-3929","native_reference":{"book_number":50,"chapter_from":23,"chapter_to":23,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":15,"verse_to":15},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>Augustine of Hippo</b>: You will not surrender to your master the slave who has joined you, fleeing from his master. It is not that his master has united him, that is, entrusted to him -because he would say he would rather have placed him-, but that he has come together, coming from his master, that is, united with him after have moved away from him. The law does not prohibit, therefore, receive fugitives. It forbids rather to return them. It could be thought that way, if we did not understand that all this is said to the nation and the people, and not to a particular man. That is why it has been forbidden to return a man who fled from his master, that is, from his king, from another nation, and who seeks refuge in the nation to which he refers. Thus the foreigner Amman, king of Gat, kept David, when he took refuge in his territory, fleeing from the presence of his master, King Saul. The Scripture explains it clearly when it says about the one who seeks refuge: He will live among you, wherever he pleases.<br/><i>— QUESTIONS ON DEUTERONOMY, Q. 36 (tr. J. Litteral, draft)</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"506a36b0d49e59dbf5d74cfdeae3e237d06d6deefc9afd358b15a7706f0c904d","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":3929,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"5f065751f10597a42e0b00b20933caf75a128a9179ae9984a4f162d0ea5635c5","translator":null,"work":null}