Exodus 1:8
In the mean time there arose a new king over Egypt, that knew not Joseph:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Surrexit interea rex novus super Ægyptum, qui ignorabat Joseph.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Ἀνέστη δὲ βασιλεὺς ἕτερος ἐπ᾽ Αἴγυπτον, ὃς οὐκ ᾔδει τὸν Ἰωσήφ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיָּ֥קָם מֶֽלֶךְ חָדָ֖שׁ עַל מִצְרָ֑יִם אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹֽא יָדַ֖ע אֶת יוֹסֵֽף
The Fathers on this verse
St Gregory Nazianzen On the Great Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria
33. Brief was the interval before Justice pronounced sentence, and handed over the offender to the Persians: sending him forth an ambitious monarch, and bringing him back a corpse for which no one even felt pity; which, as I have heard, was not allowed to rest in the grave, but was shaken out and thrown up by the earth which he had shaken: a prelude, I take it, to his future chastisement. Then another king arose, not shameless in countenance like the former, nor an oppressor of Israel with cruel tasks and taskmasters, but most pious and gentle. In order to lay the best of foundations for his empire, and begin, as is right, by an act of justice, he recalled from exile all the Bishops, but in the first place him who stood first in virtue and had conspicuously championed the cause of piety. …