Genesis 7:2 (WEB)
You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the male and his female. Of the animals that are not clean, take two, the male and his female.
Fathers and councils · 4
John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences I–X VIII.23Conference VIII
“How could Noah have distinguished what animals were clean and what were unclean, when the commandment of the law had not yet made a distinction, unless he had been taught by a natural knowledge?” — editor's note: Gen. vii. 2.
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Jerome
“It agrees, also, with this interpretation that the unclean animals are led into Noah’s ark in pairs, while of the clean an uneven number is taken.” — editor's note: Gen. vii. 2.
Read the whole comment“Just as in the account of Noah’s ark all the animals that enter by twos are unclean, but those of which an uneven number is taken are clean.”” — editor's note: Gen. vii. 2.
Read the whole comment“And if of the clean animals there are seven taken of each kind, that is, an uneven number; this points to the palm which awaits virginal chastity.” — editor's note: Gen. vii. 2.
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