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3424 |
| Text |
De civitate Dei (413 - 427) Augustine of Hippo |
| Quotation |
propter quod ipse magnus propheta samuel, antequam unxisset regem saul, quando exclamauit ad
dominum pro israel, et exaudiuit eum, et, cum offerret holocaustosim, accedentibus alienigenis ad
pugnam contra populum dei tonuit dominus super eos, et confusi sunt et offenderunt coram israel
atque superati sunt: adsumpsit lapidem unum et statuit illum inter massephat nouam et ueterem, et
uocauit nomen eius abennezer, quod est latine lapis adiutoris, et dixit: usque hoc adiuuit nos
dominus. |
| Translation |
Hence what the great prophet Samuel himself did, before he had anointed Saul. For he ‘cried unto the Lord for Israel, and the Lord heard him’; and Samuel offered a whole burnt-offering, as the foreigners were coming to battle against the people of God; and the Lord thundered over them, and they were confounded, and fell in the presence of Israel, and were vanquished. And Samuel then took a stone and set it up between the old and new Mizpeh, and called the name of it Ebenezer, which in Latin is ‘the stone of the Helper’; and he said, ‘Hitherto hath the Lord helped us.’ (Trans. Dyson) |
| Quotation source |
Lib. 17, Cap. 7 (lin. 84) |
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