{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-1353","native_reference":{"book_number":90,"chapter_from":28,"chapter_to":28,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":17,"verse_to":17},"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>: Also, some can be sent to the living from the dead, just as in the opposite direction divine Scripture testifies that Paul was snatched from the living into paradise. Samuel the prophet, although dead, predicted future events to King Saul, who was alive, although some think that it was not Samuel himself who was able to be called forth by some magic, but that some spirit so allied with evil works had feigned a likeness to him—yet the book of Ecclesiasticus, which Jesus the son of Sirach is said to have written, but because of some similarity of style is thought to be the work of Solomon, contains in praise of the fathers the fact that Samuel prophesied even though dead. If there is objection to this book on the ground that it is not in the canon of ancient Hebrew Scripture, what are we going to say of Moses, who in Deuteronomy is certainly recorded as dead and again in the Gospel of Matthew is reported to have appeared to the living along with Elijah who did not die.<br/><i>— On the Care of the Dead 15.18</i></p><p><b>Origen of Alexandria</b>: But the argument is still under examination. And I say that both the narrative and the examination concerning it are necessary, so that we may see what awaits us after our departure. \"He has spoken by my hand, and the Lord will rend the kingdom from your hand and give it to your neighbor, to David.\" But a demon cannot know the kingdom of David that was appointed by the Lord. \"Because you did not hearken to the voice of the Lord, you did not execute the anger of his wrath upon Amalek.\" Are these not the words of God? Are they not true? For truly Saul did not do the will of the Lord, but \"preserved the king of Amalek alive,\" for which also, before his death and at his departure, Samuel reproached Saul: \"And on account of this word the Lord has done this to you on this day; and the Lord will give Israel also into the hand of the foreigners.\" Can a demon prophesy about the whole people of God — that the Lord is about to hand over Israel? \"The Lord will also hand over the camp of Israel into the hand of the foreigners. But hasten, Saul: tomorrow both you and your sons shall be with me.\" And can a demon know this — concerning a king anointed together with a prophet — that tomorrow Saul was about to depart from life, and his sons with him? \"Tomorrow you and your sons shall be with me.\"<br/><i>— HOMILIES ON 1 SAMUEL 2.5</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"6d74b512331a42a5b0ad582f0d678174448117145833355f020afe227584b6e1","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":1353,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"7542888c4b229273c36b8127906a24f576adb59039a98a4c4f2d2a23b161f7b2","translator":null,"work":null}