Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Genesis 24:64

There are 2 footnotes for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 3, page 689, footnote 8 (Image)

Tertullian (I, II, III)

Ethical. (HTML)

On Prayer. (HTML)

Answer to the Foregoing Arguments. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 8914 (In-Text, Margin)

... to be veiled from that day forth on which they shuddered at the first bodily touch of a man by kiss and hand. For in them everything has been forewedded: their age, through maturity; their flesh, through age; their spirit, through consciousness; their modesty, through the experience of the kiss their hope, through expectation; their mind through volition. And Rebecca is example enough for us, who, when her betrothed had been pointed out, veiled herself for marriage merely on recognition of him.[Genesis 24:64-65]

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 4, page 34, footnote 5 (Image)

Tertullian (IV), Minucius Felix, Commodian, Origen

Tertullian: Part Fourth. (HTML)

On the Veiling of Virgins. (HTML)

The Rule of Veiling Not Applicable to Children. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 314 (In-Text, Margin)

... just as she is to marriage. And the betrothed indeed have the example of Rebecca, who, when she was being conducted—herself still unknown—to an unknown betrothed, as soon as she learned that he whom she had sighted from afar was the man, awaited not the grasp of the hand, nor the meeting of the kiss, nor the interchange of salutation; but confessing what she had felt—namely, that she had been (already) wedded in spirit—denied herself to be a virgin by then and there veiling herself.[Genesis 24:64-65] Oh woman already belonging to Christ’s discipline! For she showed that marriage likewise, as fornication is, is transacted by gaze and mind; only that a Rebecca likewise some do still veil. With regard to the rest, however (that is, ...