Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Genesis 30:43
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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 4, page 517, footnote 9 (Image)
Tertullian (IV), Minucius Felix, Commodian, Origen
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... interposed in a very marked degree, what absurdity do we commit, seeing we are persuaded that He never withdraws His providence from those who devote themselves to Him in an honourable and vigorous life? He ridicules, moreover, the acquisition of property made by Jacob while living with Laban, not understanding to what these words refer: “And those which had no spots were Laban’s, and those which were spotted were Jacob’s;” and he says that “God presented his sons with asses, and sheep, and camels,”[Genesis 30:43] and did not see that “all these things happened unto them for ensamples, and were written for our sake, upon whom the ends of the world are come.” The varying customs (prevailing among the different nations) becoming famous, are regulated by the ...