Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Genesis 32:14

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 362, footnote 9 (Image)

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CCEL Footnote 4382 (In-Text, Margin)

... Adam’s transgression.” And no one doubts that in both passages Moses signifies the law. We read that Moses, that is the law, had a wife: shew me then in the same way that Joshua the son of Nun had either wife or children, and if you can do so, I will confess that I am beaten. He certainly received the fairest spot in the division of the land of Judah, and died, not in the twenties, which are ever unlucky in Scripture—by them are reckoned the years of Jacob’s service, the price of Joseph, and[Genesis 32:14] sundry presents which Esau who was fond of them received—but in the tens, whose praises we have often sung; and he was buried in Thamnath Sare, that is, most perfect sovereignty, or among those of a new covering, to ...