Genesis 31:38 (WEB)
“These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not cast their young, and I haven’t eaten the rams of your flocks.
Fathers and councils · 4
Gregory the Great
“By day and night I was consumed by drought and frost; sleep fled from mine eyes (Gen. xxxi. 38).” — the author cites it
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- Glossa OrdinariaCatena Aurea on Matthew
“Hebr. from לאה, to weary one’s self.] for she is active in labour; Rachel ‘having seen the beginning,’ [ed. note, i: Rachel, in ewe, (as Gen. xxxi. 38, &c.) Jerom. ibid. who also gives the interpretation in the text, from ראה and חלל (חְחִלָּה beginning.] because by the contemplative, the…” — the author cites it
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“Of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.”” — editor's note: Gen. xxxi. 40, 38, 39
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Aphrahat
“In the daytime the heat devoured me and the cold by night.” — editor's note: Gen. xxxi. 38, 40.
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Cross-references · 3
Cited together in Glossa Ordinaria on Matthew 1:2 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Epistles, Books IX–XIV IX.25.
Cited together in Epistles, Books IX–XIV IX.25.