Genesis 30:37 (WEB)
Jacob took to himself rods of fresh poplar, almond, and plane tree, peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.
Fathers and councils · 4
Gregory of Nyssa
“Add to this also the history of the three rods of Jacob.” — editor's note: Cf. Gen. xxx. 37, sqq.
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Augustine of Hippo
“…offspring of various colors, by placing variegated rods before them in the troughs of water for them to look at as they drank, at the time they had conceived.” — editor's note: Gen. xxx. 37–41
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Clement of Alexandria
“Jacob fed the sheep of Laban that were left in his charge, having as a royal badge “a rod of storax,” which aimed by its wood to change and improve nature.” — editor's note: Gen. xxx. 37. Not “poplar,” as in A.V. [See Abp. Leighton on “Laban’s lambs,” Comm. on St. Peter, part i. p. 360, and questionable note of an admirable editor,…
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Hippolytus of Rome
“But the Son derives shape from the Father after a mode ineffable, and unspeakable, and unchangeable; (that is,) in such a manner as Moses says that the colours of the conceived (kine) flowed from the rods which were fixed in the drinking-troughs.” — editor's note: Gen. xxx. 37–39.
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Cross-references · 9
Cited together in The Instructor III.10.
Cited together in The Instructor III.10.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies V.12.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies V.12.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies V.12.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies V.12.
Cited together in The Instructor III.10.
Cited together in The Instructor III.10.
Cited together in The Instructor III.10.