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What the Fathers say

1 Samuel 14:37

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Gregory the Dialogist

What does it mean that the words of the consulting king, which the people praise, the priest declares must be brought before the Lord, except that obscure and great matters, which escape the simple, are never rightly ordered if we do not seek their outcome in the sanctuary of the mind through careful meditation? For to approach the Lord is to know His will through secret contemplation. …

Commentary on 1 Kings, Book 5, Chapter 4 ↗