Apology for the Prophet David
Ambrose of Milan (340–397)
Saint Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, Apology for the Prophet David, to Emperor Theodosius.
Latin Text from public domain Migne Editors, Patrologiae Cursus Completus.
Translated into English using ChatGPT.
Table of Contents
Chapter I.
Chapter II.
Chapter III.
Chapter IV.
Chapter V.
Chapter VI.
Chapter VII.
Chapter VIII.
Chapter IX.
Chapter X.
Chapter XI.
Chapter XII.
Chapter XIII.
Chapter XIV.
Chapter XV.
Chapter XVI.
Chapter XVII.
Chapter I.
Why Ambrose undertakes to write a defense of David. The history of the deed is set forth. Then it is shown that the one whom God has justified is not to be judged; on the contrary, he is even to be praised, for in such power he did not commit more sins.
We have taken up the task of writing an apology for the present style of the prophet David, not because he needs this gift, who has excelled in such great merits and flourished in virtues, but because many people, reading the sequence of his deeds without considering the power of the Scriptures or the hidden mysteries, wonder how such a great prophet did not avoid the contagion of adultery first and then of murder.
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