Genesis 27:1 (WEB)
When Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, “My son?” He said to him, “Here I am.”
Fathers and councils · 3
Augustine of Hippo
“Or that which Isaac saw, when his fleshly “eyes were dim, so that he could not see” by reason of old age; it was permitted him, not knowingly to bless his sons, but in blessing them to know them.” — editor's note: Gen. xxvii. 1.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“But let us look at the matter thus; when we hear the divine Scripture saying “And it came to pass when Isaac was old his eyes were dim so that he could not see,” whither is our mind carried and on what does it rest, on Isaac’s soul or on his body?” — editor's note: Gen. xxvii. 1
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Hippolytus of Rome
“This, he says, is he who is according to the likeness of Esau, whose garment—he not being himself present—was blessed; who did not receive, he says, the benediction uttered by him of enfeebled vision.” — editor's note: Gen. xxvii. 1.
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Cross-references · 13
Cited together in Confessions X.34.
Cited together in Confessions X.34.
Cited together in Confessions X.34.
Cited together in Confessions X.34.
Cited together in Confessions X.34.
Cited together in Confessions X.34.
Cited together in Confessions X.34.
Cited together in Confessions X.34.
Cited together in Confessions X.34.
Cited together in Confessions X.34.
Cited together in Confessions X.34.
Cited together in Confessions X.34.
Cited together in Confessions X.34.