Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Genesis 27:39
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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 3, page 343, footnote 9 (Image)
Tertullian (I, II, III)
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Christ's Millennial and Heavenly Glory in Company with His Saints. (HTML)
... fatness of the earth. So are we first invited to heavenly blessings when we are separated from the world, and afterwards we thus find ourselves in the way of obtaining also earthly blessings. And your own gospel likewise has it in this wise: “Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and these things shall be added unto you.” But to Esau the blessing promised is an earthly one, which he supplements with a heavenly, after the fatness of the earth, saying, “Thy dwelling shall be also of the dew of heaven.”[Genesis 27:39] For the dispensation of the Jews (who were in Esau, the prior of the sons in birth, but the later in affection) at first was imbued with earthly blessings through the law, and afterwards brought round to heavenly ones through the gospel by faith. ...