Genesis 37:36 (WEB)
The Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard.
Fathers and councils · 2
Augustine of Hippo
“…Joseph, after his selling by his brethren, after his removal from his home into Egypt as though into the Gentiles, after the humiliation of a prison, after the made-up tale of a false witness, after that there had come to pass that which of him was said, “Iron passed through the soul of him:” now he is…” — editor's note: Gen. xxxvii. 36, xxxix. 20.
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Jerome
“Was there ever a eunuch’s wife contented with a childless marriage bed?” — editor's note: The allusion is to the word “officer” in Gen. xxxvii. 36. See A.V. margin.
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