Genesis 16:2 (WEB)
Sarai said to Abram, “See now, the LORD has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my servant. It may be that I will obtain children by her.” Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
Fathers and councils · 3
Irenaeus of Lyons
“The arrangement also made by Sarah when, after ten years, she gave her handmaid Hagar to him, that by her he might have a son, showed the same thing.” — editor's note: Gen. xvi. 2.
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Eusebius of Caesarea
“…Concerning the things which the Sober Mind desires and execrates,On the Confusion of Tongues,On Flight and Discovery,On Assembly for the sake of Instruction,On the question, ‘Who is heir to things divine?’ or On the division of things into equal and unequal,and still further the work On the three Virtues which with…” — editor's note: περὶ τῆς πρὸς τὰ παιδεύματα συνόδου, “On Assembly for the sake of instruction.” Upon Gen. xvi. 1–6, which is interpreted to mean that one must make himself…
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Augustine of Hippo
“For women, if they had no children of their own, used to adopt children born of their husbands by their hand-maids, and even oblige their husbands to give them children in this way; as Sarah, Rachel, and Leah.” — editor's note: Gen. xvi. 2 and xxx.
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