Samuel
historical figure · 7 works · 13 mentions · 19 anchored passages
the prophet Samuel · Samuel the prophet · soul of Samuel
in the texts
Stromata
Samuel, prophet and last judge of Israel, who anointed both Saul and David and whose era is used repeatedly as a chronological reference.
And Samuel died two years before Saul, under the high priest Abimelech.
Him Samuel the prophet succeeds, with whom Saul reigned, holding rule for twenty-seven years.
In his eighteenth year the Passover was kept, which had not been performed since Samuel, nor in the time between.
The Rights of War and Peace
Biblical prophet through whom God's instruction on kingship is delivered.
God addressing the people of Israel, says, if thou shalt say, “I will place a king over me “ and to Samuel “ Shew them the manner of the king, who shall reign over them.
and David fled with Samuel to another place, which the presence of a prophetic company protected from all molestation and injury.
Adversus Marcionem
The prophet whom Saul despised, and whose pronouncement to Saul is used to define the true nature of divine repentance.
Saul is accepted, but while not yet a despiser of the prophet Samuel.
For this too the same scripture determines for you, Samuel saying to Saul:
So too of old in Kingdoms, Hannah, the mother of Samuel, rendering glory to God in spirit, "Who," she says, "raises the poor from the earth and the beggar, that he may make him sit with the chiefs of the people" — surely in his kingdom — "and on thrones of glory" — surely royal ones.
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
Prophet and last of the Judges of Israel, noted for the purity of his judgments.
Eli, the last but one of the Judges, had judged Israel forty years, and Samuel the prophet, the last of them, expressly claims credit in his old age for the purity of his judgments.
De Anima
Prophet whose soul the Pythonic spirit falsely impersonated before Saul.
For not even to the Pythonic spirit then was it less permitted to feign the soul of Samuel, when Saul consulted the dead after God.
De ieiunio adversus psychicos
Prophet and judge of Israel, associated with the fast at Mizpah and vowed to abstinence by his mother.
Israel had transgressed, gathered for the drawing of water at Mizpah by Samuel;
For abstinence from wine too has its own claims, which had both vowed Samuel to God and consecrated Aaron.
Common Sense
Hebrew prophet and judge through whom God warned the Israelites about the consequences of requesting a king
for the will of the Almighty as declared by Gideon and the prophet Samuel, expressly disapproves of Government by Kings.
but so it was, that laying hold of the misconduct of Samuel's two sons who were entrusted with some secular concerns, they came in an abrupt and clamorous manner to Samuel saying, behold thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways, now make us a King to judge us like all the other nations.