Genesis 2:13 (WEB)
The name of the second river is Gihon. It is the same river that flows through the whole land of Cush.
Fathers and councils · 3
Eusebius of Caesarea
“Or how could the great river which flowed out of Eden, if it poured the four heads into which it is divided into the one of Geon, wash away this pollution?” — editor's note: Γηὼν; LXX (Gen. ii. 13), Γεῶν; Heb. גִּיחֹון; A.V. and R.V., Gihon.
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Jerome
“The name of the first is Pison…and the name of the second is Gihon.”” — editor's note: Gen. ii. 10, 11, 13.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“…that man, as far as the head only, is Paradise, therefore that “this river, which proceeds out of Edem,” that is, from the brain, “is divided into four heads, and that the name of the first river is called Phison; this is that which encompasseth all the land of Havilath: there is gold, and the gold of that land is…” — editor's note: Gen. ii. 11–14.
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Cross-references · 3
Cited together in Church History VII.21.
Cited together in Church History VII.21.
Cited together in Church History VII.21.
