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Genesis 31:11 (WEB)
The angel of God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob,’ and I said, ‘Here I am.’

Fathers and councils · 4

Origen, A Letter from Origen to Africanus
“I am God, who appeared unto thee in the place of God, where thou anointedst to Me there a pillar, and vowedst a vow there to Me: now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred.”” — editor's note: Gen. xxxi. 10–13.
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Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies IV.10Book IV
“…him the dimensions [of the ark]; at another; inquiring after Adam; at another, bringing down judgment upon the Sodomites; and again, when He becomes visible, and directs Jacob on his journey, and speaks with Moses from the bush.” — editor's note: See Gen. xviii. 13 and Gen. xxxi. 11, etc. There is an allusion here to a favourite notion among the Fathers, derived from Philo the Jew, that the name Israel…
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Eusebius of Caesarea, Church History II.18Book II
“And there is also a work of his On Emigration,and one On the life of a Wise Man made perfect in Righteousness, or On unwritten Laws;and still further the work On Giants or On the Immutability of God,and a first, second, third, fourth and fifth book On the proposition, that Dreams according to Moses are sent by God.” — editor's note: περὶ τε τοῦ κατὰ Μωϋσέα θεοπέμπτους εἶναι τοὺς ὀνείρους πρῶτον, δεύτερον, κ.τ.λ. Two books are extant, the first upon Gen. xxviii. 12 sqq. and Gen. xxxi. 11…
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Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 58
“Now therefore arise, and get thee out of this land, and depart to the land of thy birth, and I shall be with thee.’” — editor's note: Gen. xxxi. 10–13.
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