Genesis 16:6 (WEB)
But Abram said to Sarai, “Behold, your maid is in your hand. Do to her whatever is good in your eyes.” Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face.
Fathers and councils · 4
Eusebius of Caesarea
“…to the contents of each; for instance, 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…” — editor's note: περὶ φυγῆς καὶ εὑρέσεως. The same title is found in Johannes Monachus (Mangey, I. 546, note), and it is probably correct, as the work treats of the flight and…
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Augustine of Hippo
““Return to thy mistress.”” — editor's note: Gen. xvi. 4–9.
Read the whole comment“…had gone in to her without being attached, had impregnated without loving her,—for he says, “Behold thy maid is in thy hands: do to her as it pleaseth thee;” a man able to use women as a man should,—his wife temperately, his handmaid compliantly, neither intemperately!” — editor's note: Gen. xvi. 6.
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Clement of Alexandria
“…to her, Abraham, as choosing only what was profitable in secular philosophy, said, “Behold, thy maid is in thine hands: deal with her as it pleases thee;” manifestly meaning, “I embrace secular culture as youthful, and a handmaid; but thy knowledge I honour and reverence as true wife.”” — editor's note: Gen. xvi. 6.
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Cross-references · 1
Cited together in The City of God XVI.25.