Genesis 15:13 (WEB)
He said to Abram, “Know for sure that your offspring will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.
Fathers and councils · 5
Irenaeus of Lyons
“Thus did he await patiently the promise of God, and was unwilling to appear to receive from men, what God had promised to give him, when He said again to him as follows: “I will give this land to thy seed, from the river of Egypt even unto the great river Euphrates.”” — editor's note: Gen. xv. 13.
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Tertullian
“In fact, it was after Abraham’s “four hundred and thirty years” that the Law was given.” — editor's note: Comp. Gen. xv. 13 with Ex. xii. 40–42 and Acts vii. 6.
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John Cassian
“As in this case where God declares that Israel shall serve the Egyptians for four hundred years, and says to Abraham: “Know thou that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land not theirs, and they shall bring them under bondage and afflict them four hundred years.”” — editor's note: Gen. xv. 13.
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Augustine of Hippo
“For thus it is said to be four hundred years, after which the people of Israel went out of Egypt, whereas it is four hundred and thirty.” — editor's note: Gen. xv. 13; Acts vii. 6.
Read the whole comment“…and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Hivites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”” — editor's note: Gen. xv. 9–21.
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Cross-references · 13
Cited together in Against Heresies V.32.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.32.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.32.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.32.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.32.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.32.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.32.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.32.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.32.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.32.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.32.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.32.
Cross-reference given by the World English Bible's translators.