Where the Fathers quote Genesis 46
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Expounded by the Fathers
Photius of ConstantinoplePG 101:273expounds v.22“ουτοι υιοι Ραχηλ ους ετεκε τω Ιακωβ· πασαι αι ψυχαι δεκαοκτω.”On the Genealogy of Jacob’s Sons: Bilhah and Zilpah
Joannes ChrysostomusPG 51:41expounds v.34“ερειτε· ανδρες κτηνοτροφοι εσμεν οι παιδες σου εκ παιδος εως του νυν και ημεις και οι πατερες ημων ινα κατοικησητε εν γη Γεσεμ Αραβιας· βδελυγμα γαρ ε”On «The gate is narrow» and the interpretation of the «Our Father»
Isidore of PelusiumPG 78:712expounds v.34“ερειτε· ανδρες κτηνοτροφοι εσμεν οι παιδες σου εκ παιδος εως του νυν και ημεις και οι πατερες ημων ινα κατοικησητε εν γη Γεσεμ Αραβιας· βδελυγμα γαρ ε”281. On the «Our Father»
1Gen 46:1
John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 54:559…lord prayers by which he gave thanks and sacrificed a sacrifice to the god of his father isaac chapter begins we should be taught this whatever we are about to do if we are about to…
3Gen 46:3
Origen c. 185–c. 253PG 15:889…y mourning." From the Coislin [manuscript]. The same interpreter translates the word be-onì [in my sorrow or mourning] as en en dype mou [in my mourning]. Gen. XLVI, 3, he translates re'shyth oní as arkhē…
Eusebius of Caesarea c. 260–339PG 22:1041…into egypt god again said to him in a vision by night fear not to go down into egypt these things have been necessarily set before us for it shows that divine scripture does not record…
John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 54:565…elt in Egypt, and they increased and multiplied exceedingly" (Gen. 47:27). For this was also God's promise made to him, that, "I will make you a great nation" (Gen. 46:3). "And Jacob lived seventeen years" (Ge…
4Gen 46:4
Origen c. 185–c. 253PG 12:787…with their virtue there was with them that virtue which had said i will go down with thee into egypt and because that virtue was with them therefore the prophet says and there was not one…
11Gen 46:11
Eusebius of Caesarea c. 260–339PG 21:1571A…in the determination of the time when Kohath was born; for according to Demetrius, his birth would correspond with the death of Jacob in Egypt. Furthermore, in Gen. XLVI, 11, where the calculation of Jacob’s grand…
15Gen 46:15
AnonymousPG 2:1061C…he very entry into Egypt; but [that she was] conceived earlier, and thus counts her among the thirty-three souls who are said to have entered Egypt with Jacob (Gen. XLVI, 15). That this opinion also pleased other…
26Gen 46:26
Hesychius of Jerusalem d. after 450PG 93:803…enumerating the number of those who went down into egypt he says all the souls that came with jacob into egypt and that came out of his thigh besides his sons' wives seventy but luke also…
Daniel Heinsius 1580-1655PG 43:945DLatin…denda parte viri pariter et mulieris poni. Ac de viri quidem, ut, cum aliquoties (nam infiniti prope loci sunt) posteritas Jacobi, femore ejus dicitur egressa, Gen. xlvi, 26; Exod. i, 5. Ubi modo, αἱ ἐξελθοῦσαι ἐξ…
27Gen 46:27
Clement of Alexandria c. 150 – c. 215PG 9:1375…nations and languages when they heard the voice of moses saying 'and all the souls of the house of jacob who came with jacob c into egypt were seventy five ' but if you ask us…
Gregory of Nyssa c. 335–c. 395PG 45:549…does not mean that the flesh will come to the Judge separated from the souls. And when we hear from history that Jacob went down into Egypt with seventy souls (Gen. XLVI, 27), we understand the flesh along with th…
John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 47:479…also broke into that most bitter cry for i am guilty of all the souls of the house of thy father kings and so to be with him was constantly nothing other than a reminder of…
Cyril of Alexandria d. 444PG 75:1449…Egypt were seventy-five” (Gen. xlvi, 27). It is clear that the sons and descend…
28Gen 46:28
Origen c. 185–c. 253PG 15:1301…a another and the livestock another and they carried off their possessions and they came into the land of israel and ruined it another they approached the land to ruin it it came to pass when…
OrigenesPG 16:2373…of shaphan and jeremiah the prophet and baruch the son of neriah and they came into the land of egypt for they did not listen to the voice of the lord and they came to tahpanhes…
32Gen 46:32
John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 54:561…they are men who are shepherds they are men who are herdsmen and they have brought their flocks and their cattle if therefore pharaoh calls you and says what is your work say that we are…
34Gen 46:34
Origen c. 185–c. 253PG 12:141…sojourners in the land and pharaoh said to joseph saying let them dwell in the land of goshen since in the tetrapla from which the copy was also taken to align with the sequence in the…