Genesis 18:4 (WEB)
Now let a little water be fetched, wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.
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 · 3
Ambrose of Milan
“For the Father did not appear to Abraham, nor did Abraham wash the feet of God the Father, but the feet of Him in Whom is the image of the man that shall be.” — editor's note: 1 John iii. 2, 3; Gen. xviii. 4.
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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
“For these methods of communication seem to imply that the angels have not tangible bodies, and make it a very difficult question to solve how the patriarchs washed their feet, and how it was that Jacob wrestled with the angel in a way so unmistakeably material.” — editor's note: Gen. xviii. 4, xix. 2
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Cross-references · 4
Cited together in The Enchiridion Chapter 59.
Cited together in The Enchiridion Chapter 59.
Cited together in The Enchiridion Chapter 59.
Cited together in The Enchiridion Chapter 59.