Where the Fathers quote Genesis 42

23 citations across the Patrologia Graeca — from the printed citations of the English pass; every reference opens the page with its facsimile one tap away. · trace across the Tradition ›

Origen c. 185–c. 253PG 12:239…he said to his sons why are you idle behold i hear that there is corn in egypt go down thither and buy us victuals that we may live and not die and a little later… Origen c. 185–c. 253PG 15:1121…in the camp they were cast down to his neighbor a dream and he said behold i have dreamed a dream another a dream and he told the dream which was dreamt a cake of ash… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 54:547…egypt he said he says to his sons why are you sluggish behold i have heard that there is corn in egypt descend that you may buy for us a little food that we may live… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 54:551…such things the boy with me and rising we will go so that we may live and not die entrust him to my faith he says so that we may gird ourselves for the journey for… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 54:563…who are being besieged by death but provide us with bread so that we may live and not die and joseph said to them bring your cattle and i will give you bread for if you… Origen c. 185–c. 253PG 12:135…in the place of affliction joseph was the prince of egypt he sold to all the people of the land but joseph s brothers coming worshipped him falling to the ground because they were the sons… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 48:1015B…, these men returned, with famine driving them like an executioner, and appeared before Joseph: they wanted to buy grain, and he said to them: "You are spies" (Gen. 42:9). They said among themselves: "What is… Basilius Caesariensis MagnusPG 29:261B…oaths but are not oaths, but rather an act of consideration toward the hearers. Just as Joseph, to win favor with the Egyptian, swore by the health of Pharaoh (Gen. xlii, 15). And the Apostle, demonstrating his lo… Origen c. 185–c. 253PG 12:137…for we are indeed in sins concerning our brother because we disregarded the anguish of his soul when he was begging according to what is written in silence he begged for it is not written how… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 49:57C…might be punished, and fearing for the worst, they were reminded of the sin, and said to one another: Yes, we are indeed guilty concerning our brother Joseph (Gen. XLII, 21). Do you see how fear reminded them of… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 52:603…in sin regarding our brother, because we disregarded his tribulation and the pain of his soul when he besought us, and now his blood is being required of us" (Gen. XLII, 21). And yet the crime that was being… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 60:103C…tremes, and then they were reminded of this sin. And that it is not a conjecture what I say, hear them saying: "Even so, we are in sin concerning our brother" (Gen. XLII, 21). So also you, when something has happe… Theodoret of Cyrrhus c. 386–458PG 80:209…we are in sin concerning our brother because we despised the affliction of his soul when he besought us and we did not hear him therefore has all this affliction come upon us ' and reuben… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 48:1015D…y to you, speaking thus: Do not injure the boy, and do not do anything evil to him, for he is our brother: and behold now his blood is sought from our hands?" (Gen. 42:22). Yet he who said these things had said… Dionysius the Areopagite fl. c. 500PG 3:1115B…e Lord has remembered these things, etc."; and Exod. 20, 5: "I am the Lord thy God, strong, jealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons, etc."; Gen. 42, 22: "Behold his blood is required." As if… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 62:359C…lerably, but he stood firm even up to these words, saying: "Joseph is not, Simeon is not, and will you take away Benjamin? Upon me all these things have come" (Gen. 42.36). You see how the tyranny of famine per… Apophthegmata Patrum (Desert Fathers) 4th–5th century (compiled)PG 65:115B…ived at the chapter where Jacob says: "Joseph is not, Simeon is not, and you will take Benjamin; and you shall bring down my old age with sorrow to Hades" (Gen. XLII, 36, 38). And the elder began to say: "Do t… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 54:551…two sons if i do not bring him back to you give him into my hand and i will bring him back to you entrust him to me he says hand him over to me and… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 47:467…ead, and he alone is left, and it will happen that he is taken ill on the way in which you go, and you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave" (Gen. 42:38). At first, therefore, he altogether re… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 49:393A…God will redeem my soul from the hand of Hades, when He shall have received me" (Ps. 48:16); and Jacob, "You shall bring down my old age with sorrow to Hades" (Gen. 42:38). These names our passing had in times… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 50:633…er death led down into Hades; but now death sends one on to Christ. For this reason Jacob says, "You shall bring down my old age with grief to Hades" (Gen. 42:38); but Paul said, "To depart and be with Christ is for me fa… John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 52:767A…nly as the separation of the soul from the body, but also as Hades. For hear the patriarch Jacob saying: "You shall lead my old age down to Hades with sorrow" (Gen. 42:38); and the prophet likewise: "Hades has… Oecumenius of Tricca fl. 10th c.PG 118:1217…accustomed to speak thus therefore also jacob says d and you shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave and david and i shall be likened to those who go down into the…