Deuteronomy 33:13 (WEB)
About Joseph he said, “His land is blessed by the LORD, for the precious things of the heavens, for the dew, for the deep that couches beneath,
Fathers and councils · 3
Justin Martyr
“Let him be glorified among his brethren; his beauty is [like] the firstling of a bullock; his horns the horns of an unicorn: with these shall he push the nations from one end of the earth to another.’” — editor's note: Deut. xxxiii. 13–17.
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Basil the Great
“Thus, the deep is not a multitude of hostile powers, as has been imagined; nor “darkness” an evil sovereign force in enmity with good.” — editor's note: i.e. by those who would identify the ἄβυσσος (Tehôm) of Gen. i. 2 with that of Luke i. 31, and understand it to mean the abode in prison of evil spirits. The…
Read the whole comment“Moses, blessing the tribe of Joseph, desires for it the fruits and the dews of heaven, of the suns of summer and the conjunctions of the moon, and blessings from the tops of the mountains and from the everlasting hills, in one word, from all which fertilises the earth.” — editor's note: cf. Deut. xxxiii. 13–15, LXX.
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Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 91.