Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Genesis 24:15

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 145, footnote 20 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

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CCEL Footnote 2069 (In-Text, Margin)

... 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, and [Gihon], the scene of Solomon’s coronation, derive their names from springs. It is beside a well that Eliezer finds Rebekah.[Genesis 24:15-16] Rachel too is a drawer of water and wins a kiss thereby from the supplanter Jacob. When the daughters of the priests of Midian are in a strait to reach the well, Moses opens a way for them and delivers them from outrage. The Lord’s forerunner at ...