{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-1066","native_reference":{"book_number":90,"chapter_from":15,"chapter_to":15,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":31,"verse_to":31},"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>Gregory the Dialogist</b>: 35. For on account of the evil that lay hidden within, he deserved to hear: \"The Lord has cast you off from being king.\" But so that under the pretext of good he might draw others to the truth of that same good, Samuel wished to follow Saul, and saw him worship the Lord. Sometimes even the evils of kings and the great ones of the earth must be tolerated, lest being provoked they slip into worse things. For the children of Israel often worshiped the gods of the nations. Whence also it was said above concerning those converted by Samuel: \"The children of Israel removed from their midst the Baals and the Ashtaroth\" (1 Sam. 7:4). And perhaps if the rejected king did not see the prophet returning with him to worship the Lord, he would worship the images of demons. And so he casts him off, yet returns with him; because in the powerful of this age, iniquity must be condemned in such a way that the good they possess is not lost through provocation. For often they are evil in secret, and the good that is seen, others imitate more devoutly. Certainly the evils of the powerful of the age are great evils for them; but the good things they put forth benefit the example of the faithful more than the good deeds of others. Rightly therefore Samuel returns with the rejected king; because the elect preachers both strike the powerful of the age for their iniquity, and permit them to do certain good things for the sake of example. Whence it also follows: (Verse 32.) And Samuel said: \"Bring here Agag, king of Amalek.\" And Agag was brought to him, very fat and trembling.<br/><i>— Commentary on 1 Kings, Book 6, Chapter 2</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"acee158c44b413a591794a4bc5d17bc2b696aa6b14dbb6b018f397c7a83d3784","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":1066,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"df0990eb6dedd8b95b65c9f5e85342fe8cbdbd360607e719fcf4fc5bc37a224f","translator":null,"work":null}