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Genesis 25:22 (WEB)
The children struggled together within her. She said, “If it is like this, why do I live?” She went to inquire of the LORD.

Fathers and councils · 6

Tertullian, A Treatise on the Soul Chapter 26
“See how the bowels of Rebecca are disquieted, though her child-bearing is as yet remote, and there is no impulse of (vital) air.” — editor's note: Gen. xxv. 22, 23.
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Tertullian, An Answer to the Jews Chapter 1
“For thus unto Rebecca did God speak: “Two nations are in thy womb, and two peoples shall be divided from thy bowels; and people shall overcome people, and the greater shall serve the less.”” — editor's note: See Gen. xxv. 21–23, especially in the LXX.; and comp. Rom. ix. 10–13.
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Tertullian, On Modesty Chapter 8
“…Christian with the elder, and the Jew with the younger son, “according to the analogy of faith,” if the order of each people as intimated from Rebecca’s womb permitted the inversion: only that (in that case) the concluding paragraph would oppose them; for it will be fitting for the Christian to rejoice, and not to…” — editor's note: Comp. Rom. ix. 10–13; Gen. xxv. 21–24.
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Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 119
“Let us therefore here recognize the two nations, who were striving even in Rebecca’s womb; when it was said to her, not from works, but of Him that calleth, “The elder shall serve the younger.”” — editor's note: Gen. xxv. 22, 23; Rom. ix. 12, 13.
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Jerome, Letters Letter 123
“In Isaac and Rebekah we see an early example of monogamy: it was only to Rebekah that the Lord revealed Himself in the hour of childbirth and she alone went of herself to enquire of the Lord.” — editor's note: Gen. xxv. 22, 23.
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Jerome, Letters Letter 125
“So too Esau and Jacob strove in Rebekah’s womb.” — editor's note: Gen. xxv. 22.
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