Genesis 48:17 (WEB)
When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him. He held up his father’s hand, to remove it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head.
Fathers and councils · 3
Augustine of Hippo
“…his hands, mystically crossed, upon his grandchildren by Joseph, not as their father, looking outwardly, corrected them, but as he himself distinguished them.” — editor's note: Gen. xlviii. 13–19.
Read the whole comment“…of his piety, chastity, wisdom, he was most justly exalted; and Ephraim by the blessing of his grandfather Jacob was preferred before his elder brother: and yet God “rejected the tabernacle of Joseph, and the tribe of Ephraim He chose not.”” — editor's note: Gen. xlviii. 17, 19.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“But he would not, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: and he also shall be a people, and he shall be exalted; but his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.”” — editor's note: Gen. xlviii. 17–19. The whole of this quotation is wanting in more than one codex.
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Cross-references · 7
Cited together in Confessions X.34.
Cited together in Confessions X.34.
Cited together in Confessions X.34.
Cited together in Confessions X.34.
Cited together in Confessions X.34.
Cited together in Confessions X.34.
Cited together in Confessions X.34.