Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Genesis 11:27

There are 3 footnotes for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 4, page 130, footnote 8 (Image)

Tertullian (IV), Minucius Felix, Commodian, Origen

Tertullian: Part Fourth. (HTML)

Appendix (HTML)

A Strain of Sodom. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1227 (In-Text, Margin)

The race Chaldæan,[Genesis 11:26-28] and the righteous house

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 2, page 318, footnote 2 (Image)

Augustine: The City of God, Christian Doctrine

City of God (HTML)

The history of the city of God from Noah to the time of the kings of Israel. (HTML)

Of the Era in Abraham’s Life from Which a New Period in the Holy Succession Begins. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 889 (In-Text, Margin)

... of Noah;” so also now, after enumerating the generations from Shem, Noah’s son, down to Abraham, it then signalizes an era by saying, “These are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot. And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees. And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor’s wife Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.”[Genesis 11:27-29] This Iscah is supposed to be the same as Sarah, Abraham’s wife.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 7, page 179, footnote 4 (Image)

Augustine: Homilies on the Gospel of John, Homilies on the First Epistle of John, Soliloquies

Lectures or Tractates on the Gospel According to St. John. (HTML)

Chapter VII. 1–13. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 549 (In-Text, Margin)

... know it must be taken, for it is not a new thing you hear. The blood relations of the Virgin Mary used to be called the Lord’s brethren. For it was of the usage of Scripture to call blood relations and all other near kindred by the term brethren, which is foreign to our usage, and not within our manner of speech. For who would call an uncle or a sister’s son “brother”? Yet the Scripture calls relatives of this kind “brothers.” For Abraham and Lot are called brothers, while Abraham was Lot’s uncle.[Genesis 11:27] Laban and Jacob are called brothers, while Laban was Jacob’s uncle. When, therefore, you hear of the Lord’s brethren, consider them the blood relations of Mary, who did not a second time bear children. For, as in the sepulchre, where the Lord’s body ...