Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Genesis 24:5

There is 1 footnote for this reference.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 6, page 252, footnote 1 (Image)

Augustine: Sermon on the Mount, Harmony of the Gospels, Homilies on the Gospels

Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New Testament. (HTML)

Of the agreement of the evangelists Matthew and Luke in the generations of the Lord. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1742 (In-Text, Margin)

... other women to be proud! for Mary herself also is called a woman, not from the loss of virginity, but by a form of expression peculiar to her country; for of the Lord Jesus the Apostle also said, “made of a woman,” yet there is no interruption hence to the order and connection of our Creed wherein we confess “that He was born of the Holy Ghost and the Virgin Mary.” For as a vir gin she conceived Him, as a virgin brought Him forth, and a virgin she continued; but all females they called “women,”[Genesis 24:5] by a peculiarity of the Hebrew tongue. Hear a most plain example of this. The first woman whom God made, having taken her out of the side of a man, was called a woman before she “knew” her husband, which we are told was not till after they went out ...