Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Genesis 46:8

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 2, page 334, footnote 4 (Image)

Augustine: The City of God, Christian Doctrine

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The history of the city of God from Noah to the time of the kings of Israel. (HTML)

How It is Said that Jacob Went into Egypt with Seventy-Five Souls, When Most of Those Who are Mentioned Were Born at a Later Period. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 970 (In-Text, Margin)

... plural for children even when there is only one. Now, when Joseph’s own happiness is proclaimed, because he could see his great-grandchildren, it is by no means to be thought they already existed in the thirty-ninth year of their great-grandsire Joseph, when his father Jacob came to him in Egypt. But those who diligently look into these things will the less easily be mistaken, because it is written, “These are the names of the sons of Israel who entered into Egypt along with Jacob their father.”[Genesis 46:8] For this means that the seventy-five are reckoned along with him, not that they were all with him when he entered Egypt; for, as I have said, the whole period during which Joseph, who occasioned his entrance, lived, is held to be the time of that ...