Ambrose of Milan, on Judg 21:6

“And the children of Israel being moved with repentance for their brother Benjamin, began to say: One tribe is taken away from Israel.”

“They had warred rightly against the authors of the crime because of the cost of the sin, but the people had turned unhappily against their own flesh and each was afflicted with civil war. The outpouring of tears moved their minds to compassion and stirred their feelings; the plan conceived in anger was gone.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.