Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Genesis 21:31

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 145, footnote 18 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

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To Oceanus. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2067 (In-Text, Margin)

... brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters: thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces.” For this reason adders and scorpions haunt dry places and whenever they come near water behave as if rabid or insane. As wood sweetens Marah so that seventy palm-trees are watered by its streams, so the cross makes the waters of the law lifegiving to the seventy who are Christ’s apostles. It is Abraham and Isaac who dig wells, the Philistines who try to prevent them. Beersheba too, the city of the oath,[Genesis 21:31] and [Gihon], the scene of Solomon’s coronation, derive their names from springs. It is beside a well that Eliezer finds Rebekah. Rachel too is a drawer of water and wins a kiss thereby from the supplanter Jacob. When the daughters of the priests of ...