Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Genesis 41:29

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 7, page 335, footnote 3 (Image)

Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen

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On the Arrival of the Egyptians. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 3793 (In-Text, Margin)

III. Such was Joseph your Superintendent of corn measures, whom I may call ours also; who by his surpassing wisdom was able both to foresee the famine and to cure it by decrees of government, healing the ill-favoured and starving kine by means of the fair and fat.[Genesis 41:29] And indeed you may understand by Joseph which you will, either the great lover and creator and namesake of immortality or his successor in throne and word and hoary hair, our new Peter, not inferior in virtue or fame to him by whom the middle course was destroyed and crushed, though it still wriggles a little weakly, like the tail of a snake after it is cut off; ...