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What the Fathers say

1 Samuel 14:34

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Gregory the Dialogist

To lead a bull by hand is to destroy the sin of pride through the affliction of penance. For while by laboring one destroys what one committed through pride, one leads the bull to be slaughtered on the stone by hand. But what does it mean when he says: "Until night," unless that it is not permitted to sin, but it is permitted to destroy sins up until death? …

Commentary on 1 Kings, Book 5, Chapter 4 ↗