Genesis 24:16 (WEB)
The young lady was very beautiful to look at, a virgin. No man had known her. She went down to the spring, filled her pitcher, and came up.
Fathers and councils · 3
Basil the Great
“It is said of Rebekah “She was a virgin, neither had any man known her,” and “How shall this be seeing I know not a man?”” — editor's note: Gen. xxiv. 16.
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Jerome
“It is beside a well that Eliezer finds Rebekah.” — editor's note: Gen. xxiv. 15, 16.
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Clement of Alexandria
“That purity in body and soul which the Gnostic partakes of, the all-wise Moses indicated, by employing repetition in describing the incorruptibility of body and of soul in the person of Rebecca, thus: “Now the virgin was fair, and man had not known her.”” — editor's note: Gen. xxiv. 16.
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Cross-references · 12
Cited together in Letters Letter 235.
Cited together in Letters Letter 235.
Cited together in Letters Letter 235.
Cited together in Letters Letter 235.
Cited together in Letters Letter 235.
Cited together in Letters Letter 235.
Cited together in Letters Letter 235.
Cited together in Letters Letter 235.
Cited together in Letters Letter 235.
Cited together in Letters Letter 235.
Cited together in Letters Letter 235.
Cited together in Letters Letter 235.
