Genesis 24:3 (WEB)
I will make you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live.
Fathers and councils · 4
Augustine of Hippo
“For putting his hand under the thigh of a man, and swearing by the God of Heaven, what else did he signify, than that in that Flesh, which derived its origin from that thigh, the God of Heaven would come?” — editor's note: Gen. xxiv. 2–4
Read the whole comment“…thee swear by the Lord, the God of heaven, and the Lord of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son Isaac of the daughters of the Canaanites,” what else was pointed out by this, but that the Lord, the God of heaven, and the Lord of the earth, was to come in the flesh which was to be derived from that…” — editor's note: Gen. xxiv. 2, 3.
Read the whole comment“But that the servant might apprehend what Abraham knew, that it was not offspring after the flesh he desired, nor anything of a carnal kind concerning his race that was referred to, he said to the servant whom he sent, “Put thy hand under my thigh, and swear by the God of heaven.”” — editor's note: Gen. xxiv. 2–4.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“…even before his birth, Basil promised himself, and took for his spouse Rebekah, I mean the Church, not fetched from a distance by the mission of a servant, but bestowed upon and entrusted to him by God close at home: nor was he outwitted in the preference of his children, but bestowed upon each what was due to…” — editor's note: Ib. xxiv. 3.
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Cross-references · 1
Cited together in On the Good of Marriage Chapter 22.