Genesis 38:29 (WEB)
As he drew back his hand, behold, his brother came out, and she said, “Why have you made a breach for yourself?” Therefore his name was called Perez.
Fathers and councils · 7
Gregory of Nyssa
“So, too, Pharez was so named by his nurse from the incident at his birth, yet no one on that account, like Eunomius, displayed any jealousy of his assuming an authority above that of God.” — editor's note: Gen. xxxviii. 29.
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Augustine of Hippo
“…twin brother Jacob; so also Phares himself preceded even in birth his twin brother, who had first thrust a hand out of the womb, and had begun to be born: so David was preferred before his elder brother: and as the reason why all these parables and others like them preceded, not only of words but also of deeds, in…” — editor's note: Gen. iv. 4, xxi. 12, xxxviii. 29.
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John Chrysostom
“The midwife when she saw this said, “Why was the hedge broken up for thee?”” — editor's note: Our marginal translation is, “Wherefore hast thou made this breach against thee?” Gen. xxxviii. 29. [R.V. text: “Wherefore hast thou made a breach for…
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Jerome
“Hence it is a scarlet thread that in Genesis the midwife binds upon the hand of Pharez—Pharez “the divider,” so called because he divided the partition which had before separated two peoples.” — editor's note: Gen. xxxviii. 28, 29.
Read the whole comment“What shall I say of Tamar who bore twin sons, Pharez and Zarah?” — editor's note: Gen. xxxviii. 27–30.
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Ephrem the Syrian
“Surely the name she gave him was calling unto Thee to come to her.” — editor's note: Gen. xxxviii. 29.
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Tertullian
“It was the fact that Thamar “had painted out and adorned herself” that led Judah to regard her as a harlot, and thus, because she was hidden beneath her “veil,”—the quality of her garb belying her as if she had been a harlot,—he judged (her to be one), and addressed and bargained with (her as such).” — editor's note: Comp. Gen. xxxviii. 12–30.
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Cross-references · 2
Cited together in Nineteen Hymns on the Nativity of Christ in the Flesh Hymn 7.
Cited together in Nineteen Hymns on the Nativity of Christ in the Flesh Hymn 7.