Genesis 49:29 (WEB)
He instructed them, and said to them, “I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
Fathers and councils · 4
Theodoret of Cyrus
“Orth.—And when you hear the Patriarch Jacob saying “Bury me with my Fathers,” do you suppose this refers to the body or to the soul?” — editor's note: Gen. xlix. 29
Read the whole comment“Similarly the blessed Jacob said to his sons “Bury me with my fathers.”” — editor's note: Gen. xlix. 29
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Ambrose of Milan
“The holy patriarch Israel fled from his country, was exiled from his father, relatives, and home, he mourned over the shame of his daughter and the death of his son, he endured famine, when dead he lost his own grave, for he entreated that his bones should be translated, lest even in death he should find rest.” — editor's note: Gen. xlix. 29.
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Aphrahat
“For Jacob our father, when he was dying, bound Joseph his son with an oath, and said to him, Bury me in the tomb of my fathers, with Abraham and Sarah and Isaac and Rebecca.” — editor's note: Gen. xlix. 29, 31.
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Cross-references · 9
Cited together in Letters Letter 145.
Cited together in Letters Letter 145.
Cited together in Letters Letter 145.
Cited together in Letters Letter 145.
Cited together in Letters Letter 145.
Cited together in Letters Letter 145.
Cited together in Letters Letter 145.
Cited together in Letters Letter 145.
Cited together in Letters Letter 145.
