Genesis 27:42 (WEB)
The words of Esau, her elder son, were told to Rebekah. She sent and called Jacob, her younger son, and said to him, “Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you.
Fathers and councils · 3
Jerome
“I reminded her how the first of these fled into Mesopotamia; and how the second surrendered himself to the Philistines, and chose to submit to foreign foes rather than to enemies at home.” — editor's note: Gen. xxvii. 41–46; xxviii. 1–5.
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Ambrose of Milan
“Jacob dutifully gave way to his brother when angry, and to Rebecca; that is to say, taught by counsels of patience, he preferred to go away and live in foreign lands, rather than to arouse his brother’s anger; and then to return only when he thought his brother was appeased.” — editor's note: Gen. xxvii. 42.
Read the whole comment“Jacob also, his holy grandson, loved to pass his time at home free from danger; but his mother wished him to live in foreign parts, and so give place to his brother’s anger.” — editor's note: Gen. xxvii. 42 ff.
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Cross-references · 16
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.21.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.24.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.21.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.21.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.21.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.21.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.21.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.21.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.21.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.21.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.21.
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.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.24.