Genesis 18:3 (WEB)
and said, “My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please don’t go away from your servant.
Catechism · 2
In the Old Testament
“Abraham's remarkable hospitality at Mamre foreshadows the annunciation of the true Son of the promise.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Gen 18:1-15; Lk 1:26-38.
"I Believe in the Holy Spirit"
“Against all human hope, God promises descendants to Abraham, as the fruit of faith and of the power of the Holy Spirit.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Gen 18:1-15; Lk 1:26-38. 54-55; Jn 1:12-13; Rom 4:16-21.
Fathers and councils · 4
Ambrose of Milan
“Abraham, also, saw Three, and adored One.” — editor's note: Gen. xviii. 1–3.
Read the whole comment“He carefully kept a lookout, so as to meet the stranger, and anticipate him, and ask him not to pass by, saying: “My lord, if I have found favour in thy sight, pass not by thy servant.”” — editor's note: Gen. xviii. 3.
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Jerome
“I hear that you have erected a hospice for strangers at Portus and that you have planted a twig from the tree of Abraham upon the Ausonian shore.” — editor's note: i.e. the oak of Mamre under which he entertained the three angels (Gen. xviii. 1–8).
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Augustine of Hippo
“…by him: and, when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent-door, and worshipped toward the ground, and said, Lord, if I have found favor before thee,” etc.; why do they not advert to this also, that when two of them came to destroy the Sodomites, while Abraham still spoke to one, calling him Lord, and…” — editor's note: Gen. xviii. 2, 3.
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Cross-references · 22
Parallel passages
Genesis 18:3 and Exodus 33:13 share the same wording (12 words).
Genesis 18:3 and Exodus 34:9 share the same wording (9 words).
Genesis 18:3 and Judges 6:17 share the same wording (9 words).
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Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.21.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.21.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.14.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.14.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.21.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.14.
Cited together in The City of God XVI.29.