Genesis 24:65 (WEB)
She said to the servant, “Who is the man who is walking in the field to meet us?” The servant said, “It is my master.” She took her veil, and covered herself.
Fathers and councils · 3
Ambrose of Milan
“Was it a small sign of modesty that when Rebecca came to wed Isaac, and saw her bridegroom, she took a veil, that she might not be seen before they were united?” — editor's note: Gen. xxiv. 65.
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Tertullian
“And Rebecca is example enough for us, who, when her betrothed had been pointed out, veiled herself for marriage merely on recognition of him.” — editor's note: Gen. xxiv. 64, 65.
Read the whole comment“…but confessing what she had felt—namely, that she had been (already) wedded in spirit—denied herself to be a virgin by then and there veiling herself.” — editor's note: Gen. xxiv. 64, 65. Comp. de Or., c. xxii. ad fin.
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Cross-references · 16
Cited together in Concerning Virgins III.3.
Cited together in On the Veiling of Virgins Chapter 11.
Cited together in On the Veiling of Virgins Chapter 11.
Cited together in On the Veiling of Virgins Chapter 11.
Cited together in On the Veiling of Virgins Chapter 11.
Cited together in On the Veiling of Virgins Chapter 11.
Cited together in On the Veiling of Virgins Chapter 11.
Cited together in On the Veiling of Virgins Chapter 11.
Cited together in On the Veiling of Virgins Chapter 11.
Cited together in On the Veiling of Virgins Chapter 11.
Cited together in Concerning Virgins III.3.
Cited together in Concerning Virgins III.3.
Cited together in Concerning Virgins III.3.
Cited together in On the Veiling of Virgins Chapter 11.
Cited together in On the Veiling of Virgins Chapter 11.
Cited together in Concerning Virgins III.3.