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Tyler35

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Praise be to God!

I was looking to see if anyone had links they could send on what the earliest Christian writings are for verses…

Exodus 32: 11-14
1 Samuel 15:11
Genesis 6:6-7

I’d like to know what our earliest church leaders interpreted these verses to mean. If you have info on 1 but not all 3 verses, that works too!

God Bless
 

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1 Sam 15:10-11 Tertullian: [W]ith respect to the [regret] which occurs in [God’s] conduct you interpret it with similar perverseness just as if it were with fickleness and improvidence that he [regretted], or on the recollection of some wrongdoing; because he actually said, “I [regret that I made] Saul . . . king,” very much as if he meant . . . an acknowledgment of some evil work or error. Well, this is not always implied. For there occurs even in good works a confession of [regret], as a reproach and condemnation of the man who has proved himself unthankful for a benefit. For instance, in this one case of Saul, the Creator, who had made no mistake in selecting him for the kingdom and endowing him with his Holy Spirit, makes a statement respecting the goodness of his person, how that he had most fitly chosen him as being at that moment the choicest man, so that [as he says] there was not one like him among the children of Israel [see 1Sm 10:24]. Neither was he ignorant how he would afterwards turn out. For no one would bear you out in imputing lack of foresight to that God whom, since you do not deny him to be divine, you allow to be also foreseeing; for this proper attribute of divinity exists in him. However, he did, as I have said, burden the guilt of Saul with the confession of his own [regret]; but as there is an absence of all error and wrong in his choice of Saul, it follows that this [regret] is to be understood as upbraiding another rather than as self-incriminating. Against Marcion 2.24.
 
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