Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Genesis 38:9

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 361, footnote 5 (Image)

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CCEL Footnote 4362 (In-Text, Margin)

20. But I wonder why he set Judah and Tamar before us for an example, unless perchance even harlots give him pleasure; or[Genesis 38:9] Onan who was slain because he grudged his brother seed. Does he imagine that we approve of any sexual intercourse except for the procreation of children? As regards Moses, it is clear that he would have been in peril at the inn, if Sephora which is by interpretation a bird, had not circumcised her son, and cut off the foreskin of marriage with the knife which prefigured the Gospel. This is that Moses who when he saw a great ...