Genesis 49:4 (WEB)
Boiling over like water, you shall not excel, because you went up to your father’s bed, then defiled it. He went up to my couch.
Fathers and councils · 4
Origen
“Thou wert wanton, boil not over like water; because thou wentest up to thy father’s bed; then defiledst thou the couch to which thou wentest up.”” — editor's note: Gen. xlix. 1–4.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“Gen. xlix. 4 For thou wentest up to thy father’s bed.” — the author cites it
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Tertullian
“What (reference) is understood here to the fornicator? what to the contaminator of his father’s bed? what to the Christian who had overstepped the shamelessness of heathens?—since, of course, he would have absolved by a special pardon one whom he had condemned by a special anger.” — editor's note: Comp. Gen. xlix. 4.
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Aphrahat
“Truly thou defilest my couch and wentest up.” — editor's note: Gen. xlix. 3, 4.
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