Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Genesis 35:20

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 361, footnote 3 (Image)

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CCEL Footnote 4360 (In-Text, Margin)

... this thing he was among the Assyrians, and in Mesopotamia in bondage to a hard master. But when he wished to enter the holy land, he raised on Mount Galeed the heap of witness, in token that the lord of Mesopotamia had failed to find anything among his baggage, and there swore that he would never return to the place of his bondage; and when, after wrestling with the angel at the brook Jabbok, he began to limp, because the great muscle of his thigh was withered, he at once gained the name of Israel.[Genesis 35:20] Then the wife whom he once loved, and for whom he had served, was slain by the son of sorrow near Bethlehem which was destined to be the birthplace of our Lord, the herald of virginity: and the intimacies of Mesopotamia died in the land of the ...