Genesis 30:39

Augustine of Hippo

• Augustine of Hippo, On the Holy Trinity XI.2Book XI

  “…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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Hippolytus of Rome

• Hippolytus of Rome, The Refutation of All Heresies V.12Book V

  “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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• Isaiah 6:10

  Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies V.12.

• Matthew 7:11

  Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies V.12.

• John 8:44

  Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies V.12.

• John 10:7

  Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies V.12.