Genesis 28:2 (WEB)
Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.
Fathers and councils · 4
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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Gregory of Nazianzus
“And Abraham, great Patriarch though he was, was justified by faith, and offered a strange victim, the type of the Great Sacrifice.” — editor's note: Ib. xxviii. 2.
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Augustine of Hippo
“And my God bless thee, and increase thee, and multiply thee; and thou shalt be an assembly of peoples; and give to thee the blessing of Abraham thy father, and to thy seed after thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou dwellest, which God gave unto Abraham.”” — editor's note: Gen. xxviii. 1–4.
Read the whole comment“Laban and Jacob are called brothers, while Laban was Jacob’s uncle.” — editor's note: Gen. xxviii. 2.
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