Deuteronomy 10:22 (WEB)
Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now the LORD your God has made you as the stars of the sky for multitude.
Fathers and councils · 2
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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Augustine of Hippo
“…body and soul, which is the whole man, from the soul; for so it is said that seventy-five souls went down into Egypt with Jacob, instead of saying so many men.” — editor's note: Gen. xlvi. 27, and Deut. x. 22
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Cross-references · 2
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity VII.4.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity VII.4.
