Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Genesis 7:13

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 234, footnote 13 (Image)

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CCEL Footnote 3278 (In-Text, Margin)

... we read as follows:—“there are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number. My dove, my undefiled is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the choice one of her that bare her.” It is to this choice one that the same John addresses an epistle in these words, “the elder unto the elect lady and her children.” So too in the case of the ark which the apostle Peter interprets as a type of the church, Noah brings in for his three sons one wife apiece and not two.[Genesis 7:13] Likewise of the unclean animals pairs only are taken, male and female, to shew that digamy has no place even among brutes, creeping things, crocodiles and lizards. And if of the clean animals there are seven taken of each kind, that is, an uneven ...