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In 1 Samuel 15:3, Israelite king Saul is told by God via the prophet Samuel: “Now go, attack Amalek, and proscribe [kill and dedicate to YHWH] all that belongs to him. Spare no one, but kill alike men and women, infants and sucklings, oxen and sheep, camels and asses!” [ 7 ] Saul's failure to be sufficiently harsh with Amalek is portrayed ...
Saul offered his elder daughter Merab as a wife to the now popular David, after his victory over Goliath, but David demurred. David distinguishes himself in the Philistine wars. Upon David's return from battle, the women praise him in song: Saul has slain his thousands and David his tens of thousands [46] implying that David is the greater warrior.
Advocates of lay piety called for church reform and met with persecution from the Popes. [170]: 248–250 John Wycliffe (1320–1384) urged the church to give up ownership of property, which produced much of the church's wealth, and to once again embrace poverty and simplicity. He urged the church to stop being subservient to the state and its ...
For this, Saul is rebuked by Samuel, who reminds him that God had commanded him to "completely destroy" the Amalekites (verse 15). Samuel "hacked Agag to pieces" himself (verse 33, ESV ). The word herem is the last word of the prophetic books of the Hebrew Bible : "… lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction ...
[5] [15] When Saul did not completely fulfill the order, Samuel spoke an oracle of judgement to Saul (verses 17–31), a similar prophetic attitude as in 8:1–22 and 13:8–15, but here the rejection of Saul is final and absolute (verses 28–29) and 'parabolically confirmed by the accidental tearing of Samuel's robe when Saul made his last ...
Martyrdom and Persecution in the Early Church, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1965; Luke T. Johnson. "The New Testament's Anti-Jewish Slander and the Conventions of Ancient Polemic", Journal of Biblical Literature, 108.3 (1989): 419-441. James A. Kelhoffer.
Fact Check: Social media users are claiming that Dodd, a former communist, said, “In the 1930s, we put eleven hundred men into the priesthood in order to destroy the Church from within.” This ...
Paul declared that "Christ is the end of the law", [373] exalted the Christian church as the body of Christ, and depicted the world outside the Church as under judgment. [46] Paul's writings include the earliest reference to the "Lord's Supper", [ 374 ] a rite traditionally identified as the Christian communion or Eucharist .