Genesis 23:4 (WEB)
“I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”
Catechism · 1
“By faith, he lived as a stranger and pilgrim in the promised land.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Gen 23:4
Fathers and councils · 4
John Chrysostom
“Probably indeed he even himself confessed it: but David both confessed “I am a stranger” and what?” — editor's note: See Gen. xxiii. 4
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Tertullian
“…wild beasts: so unlimitedly studious are you of catching fieldfares, so do you come from “the field” of your most lax discipline, so faint are you in spirit.” — editor's note: Comp. Gen. xxiii. 2, 3, 4, 31, and xxv. 27–34.
Read the whole comment“…when he requested of the sons of Heth a spot to bury Sarah in, he said to them, “Give me the possession of a burying place with you, that I may bury my dead,”—meaning, of course, her flesh; for he could not have desired a place to bury her soul in, even if the soul is to be deemed mortal, and even if it could bear to…” — editor's note: Gen. xxiii. 4.
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Clement of Alexandria
““I am a stranger in the earth, and a sojourner with you,” it is said.” — editor's note: Gen. xxiii. 4; Ps. xxxix. 12.
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Cross-references · 10
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 18.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 18.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 18.
Cited together in Catechism §145.
Cited together in Catechism §145.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 18.
Cited together in Catechism §145.
Cited together in Catechism §145.
Cited together in Catechism §145.
Cited together in Catechism §145.