Genesis 14:16
And he brought back all the substance, and Lot his brother, with his substance, the women also and the people.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Reduxitque omnem substantiam, et Lot fratrem suum cum substantia illius, mulieres quoque et populum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἀπέστρεψεν πᾶσαν τὴν ἵππον Σοδόμων· καὶ Λὼτ τὸν ἀδελφὸν αὐτοῦ ἀπέστρεψεν καὶ πάντα τὰ ὑπάρχοντα αὐτοῦ καὶ τὰς γυναῖκας καὶ τὸν λαόν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיָּ֕שֶׁב אֵ֖ת כָּל הָרְכֻ֑שׁ וְגַם֩ אֶת ל֨וֹט אָחִ֤יו וּרְכֻשׁוֹ֙ הֵשִׁ֔יב וְגַ֥ם אֶת הַנָּשִׁ֖ים וְאֶת הָעָֽם
The Fathers on this verse
St Jerome The Letters of St. Jerome, To Pammachius
11. I hear that you have erected a hospice for strangers at Portus and that you have planted a twig from the tree of Abraham upon the Ausonian shore. Like Æneas you are tracing the outlines of a new encampment; only that, whereas he, when he reached the waters of the Tiber, under pressure of want had to eat the square flat cakes which formed the tables spoken of by the oracle, you are able to build a house of bread to rival this little village of Bethlehem wherein I am staying; and here after their long privations you propose to satisfy travellers with sudden plenty. Well done. You have surpassed my poor beginning. You have reached the highest point. You have made your way from the root to the top of the tree. You are the first of monks in the first city of the world: you do right therefore to follow the first of the patriarchs. …
St Ambrose On the Duties of the Clergy, Chapter XV. Of liberality. To whom it must chiefly be shown, and how men of slender means may show it by giving their service and counsel
74. How much grander it was for Abraham to have recovered his captured son-in-law by his victorious arms, than if he had ransomed him! How much more usefully did holy Joseph help King Pharaoh by his counsel to provide for the future, than if he had offered him money! For money would not have bought back the fruitfulness of any one state; whilst he by his foresight kept the famine for five years from the whole of Egypt.