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Genesis 9:25 (WEB)
He said, “Canaan is cursed. He will be a servant of servants to his brothers.”

Fathers and councils · 6

Origen, Against Celsus VII.7Book VII
“Or if you will go back to more remote times, think of the life of Noah, who prophesied; and of Isaac, who gave his son a prophetic blessing; or of Jacob, who addressed each of his twelve sons, beginning with “Come, that I may tell you what shall befall you in the last days.”” — editor's note: [Gen. ix. 25–27. S.]
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Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 139
“May the Lord enlarge Japheth, and let him dwell in the houses of Shem; and let Canaan be his servant.’” — editor's note: Gen. ix. 24–27.
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John Chrysostom, Homilies on Matthew Homily 6
“…either concerning him, or any other like him; but this is said of Sarah only,when she is blamed, and of the son of Noe, when for a freeman he became a slave.” — editor's note: Gen. ix. 25.
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John Chrysostom, Homilies on Matthew Homily 8
“And yet not in themselves did this come to pass, but in their descendants; and Noah’s saying again about Canaan, came to pass in the Gibeonites, Canaan’s descendants.” — editor's note: Gen. ix. 25; Josh. ix. 27; 2 Chron. viii. 7–9.
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Basil the Great, On the Holy Spirit Chapter 19
“…oppressed by Pharaoh; or, by a wise and mysterious dispensation, the worst children are by their fathers’ order condemned to serve the wiser and the better; and this any righteous enquirer into the circumstances would declare to be not a sentence of condemnation but a benefit.” — editor's note: cf. Gen. ix. 25.
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Augustine of Hippo, The City of God XVI.1Book XVI
“…he cursed him not in his own person, but in his son’s (his own grandson’s), in the words, “Cursed be the lad Canaan; a servant shall he be unto his brethren.”” — editor's note: Gen. ix. 25.
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