Genesis 25:34 (WEB)
Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew. He ate and drank, rose up, and went his way. So Esau despised his birthright.
Fathers and councils · 8
Augustine of Hippo
“…made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things,” namely, into that Egyptian food for which Esau lost his birthright; for that Thy first-born people worshipped the head of a four-footed beast instead of Thee, turning back in heart towards Egypt, and prostrating Thy image—their…” — editor's note: Gen. xxv. 33, 34.
Read the whole comment“I know, too, that Esau was deceived by a longing for lentiles, and that David took blame to himself for desiring water, and that our King was tempted not by flesh but bread.” — editor's note: Gen. xxv. 34.
Read the whole comment“So thou hast it written, He longed for the pottage, and his brother said to him, If thou wilt that I give it thee, give me thy birthright.” — editor's note: Gen. xxv. 30–34.
Read the whole comment“But to let us know that the wrong lies not with any creature of God, but with obstinate disobedience and inordinate desire, it was not in swine’s flesh that the first man found death, but in an apple; and it was not for a fowl, but for a dish of pottage, that Esau lost his birthright.” — editor's note: Gen. xxv. 34.
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Jerome
“And to make their superstition complete, they follow a foolish custom of the Pharisees, and eat lentils, to show, it would seem, for what poor fare they have lost their birthright.” — editor's note: Gen. xxv. 34.
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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“…he exchanged the sword for the pen, and turned the dagger into a plough, being first a ravening wolf of Benjamin, then himself supplying food as did Jacob,—how he, (I say,) speaks in favour of martyrdoms, now to be chosen by himself also, when, rejoicing over the Thessalonians, he says, “So that we glory in you…” — editor's note: Gen. xxv. 34; xxvii. 25.
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Ambrose of Milan
“In the judgment of his brother, also, he was placed first, when he thought that he ought to give up his food to his brother.” — editor's note: Gen. xxv. 34. St. Ambrose at times gets carried away by his subject and says more than is warranted by the words of the Bible. Cf. also II. § 101; II. § 154;…
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Cross-references · 13
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.24.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.24.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 73.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 73.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 73.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 73.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 73.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 73.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 73.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.24.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.24.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.24.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.24.