Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Genesis 35:4

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 8, page 246, footnote 9 (Image)

Augustine: Expositions on the Psalms

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CCEL Footnote 2310 (In-Text, Margin)

8. “God hath spoken in His Holy One” (ver. 6).…In what Holy One of His? “God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself.” In that Holy One, of whom elsewhere ye have heard, “O God, in the Holy One is Thy way.” “I will rejoice and will divide Sichima.…and the valley of tabernacles I will measure out.” Sichima is interpreted shoulders. But according to history, Jacob returning from Laban his father-in-law with all his kindred, hid the idols in Sichima[Genesis 35:4] which he had from Syria, where for a long time he had dwelled, and at length was coming from thence. But tabernacles he made there because of his sheep and herds, and called the place Tabernacles. And these I will divide, saith the Church. What is this, “I will divide ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 337, footnote 6 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

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The Perpetual Virginity of Blessed Mary. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 4187 (In-Text, Margin)

7. The word of God says in Genesis,[Genesis 35:4] “And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem, and lost them until this day.” Likewise at the end of Deuteronomy, “So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord. And he buried him in the valley, in the land of Moab over against Beth-peor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.” We must ...