Acts 7:14 (WEB)
Joseph sent and summoned Jacob his father and all his relatives, seventy-five souls.
Fathers and councils · 4
Gregory of Nyssa
“For He that said, “Unto Thee shall all flesh come,” does not mean that the flesh will be presented before the Judge apart from the souls: and when we read in sacred History that Jacob went down into Egypt with seventy-five souls we understand the flesh also to be intended together with the souls.” — editor's note: Acts vii. 14. Cf. Gen. xlvi. 27, and Deut. x. 22.
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John Damascene
“But if the Evangelist said that the Word was made flesh, note that in the Holy Scripture sometimes a man is spoken of as a soul, as, for example, with seventy-five souls came Jacob into Egypt: and sometimes a man is spoken of as flesh, as, for example, All flesh shall see the salvation of God.” — editor's note: Gen. xlvi. 27, ap. LXX.; Acts vii. 14.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“And the very divine Moses when he told the tale of them that came down into Egypt and stated with whom each tribal chief had come in, added, “All the souls that came out of Egypt were seventy-five,” reckoning one soul for each immigrant.” — editor's note: Gen. xlvi. 20, lxx. In the Hebrew the number is but seventy, including Jacob himself. St. Stephen, as was natural in a Hellenized Jew follows the lxx. (Acts…
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Gregory of Nazianzus
- Gregory of Nazianzus, Letters Letter 101Letters on the Apollinarian Controversy
“Or, again, they must suppose that our fathers went down into Egypt without bodies and invisible, and that only the Soul of Joseph was imprisoned by Pharaoh, because it is written, “They went down into Egypt with threescore and fifteen Souls,” and “The iron entered into his Soul,” a thing which could not be bound.” — editor's note: Acts vii. 14.
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Cross-references · 7
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith III.18.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith III.18.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith III.18.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith III.18.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith III.18.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith III.18.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith III.18.