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“It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be king, for he has turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments.” Samuel was angry; and he cried to the LORD all night.
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Verse 11. Repenteth. God cannot change: but he often acts exteriorly as one who repents. He alters his conduct when men prove rebellious. S. Justin. p. 22.—Grieved. Hebrew “indignant.” Calmet.—He was sorry to think that Saul would now lose his temporal, and perhaps his eternal crown. Salien.—“The choice of Judas and of Saul, do not prove that God is ignorant of future events, but rather that he is a Judge of the present.” Saint Jerome in Ezec. ii.
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