Genesis 5:29 (WEB)
He named him Noah, saying, “This one will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, caused by the ground which the LORD has cursed.”
Fathers and councils · 3
John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences I–X VIII.21Conference VIII
“…begat Cainan, but Cainan begat Mahalaleel, but Mahalaleel begat Jared, Jared begat Enoch, Enoch begat Methuselah, Methuselah begat Lamech, Lamech begat Noah.”” — editor's note: Gen. v. 4–30.
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Ephrem the Syrian
“For Him Lamech also looked who might come and lovingly give Him quiet from his labour and the toiling of his hands, and from the earth the Just One had cursed.” — editor's note: Gen. v. 29.
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Tertullian
“If that is the reason (for rejecting it), let them recall to their memory that Noah, the survivor of the deluge, was the great-grandson of Enoch himself; and he, of course, had heard and remembered, from domestic renown and hereditary tradition, concerning his own great-grandfather’s “grace in the sight of God,”…” — editor's note: See Gen. v. 21, 25, 28, 29.
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Cross-references · 4
Cited together in On the Apparel of Women I.2.
Cited together in On the Apparel of Women I.2.
Cited together in On the Apparel of Women I.2.
Cited together in On the Apparel of Women I.2.
