Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Genesis 39:20

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 8, page 252, footnote 8 (Image)

Augustine: Expositions on the Psalms

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CCEL Footnote 2373 (In-Text, Margin)

... blood of the slain multiplying the faithful, yielding to these and no longer being able to kill; “Nevertheless, mine honour they have thought to drive back.” Now because a Christian cannot be killed, pains are taken that a Christian should be dishonoured. For now by the honour of Christians the hearts of ungodly men are tortured: now that spiritual Joseph, after his selling by his brethren, after his removal from his home into Egypt as though into the Gentiles, after the humiliation of a prison,[Genesis 39:20] after the made-up tale of a false witness, after that there had come to pass that which of him was said, “Iron passed through the soul of him:” now he is honoured, now he is not made subject to brethren selling him, but corn he supplieth to them ...