Genesis 24:1
Now Abraham was old; and advanced in age: and the Lord had blessed him in all things.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Erat autem Abraham senex, dierumque multorum : et Dominus in cunctis benedixerat ei.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Καὶ Ἀβραὰμ ἦν πρεσβύτερος προβεβηκὼς ἡμερῶν, καὶ Κύριος εὐλόγησεν τὸν Ἀβραὰμ κατὰ πάντα.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְאַבְרָהָ֣ם זָקֵ֔ן בָּ֖א בַּיָּמִ֑ים וַֽיהוָ֛ה בֵּרַ֥ךְ אֶת אַבְרָהָ֖ם בַּכֹּֽל
The Fathers on this verse
St John Chrysostom The Commentary and Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Galatians and Ephesians, Ephesians 5:22-24
Consider Abraham, and Sarah, and Isaac, and the three hundred and eighteen born in his house. ( Gen. xiv. 14 .) How the whole house was harmoniously knit together, how the whole was full of piety and fulfilled the Apostolic injunction. She also “reverenced her husband”; for hear her own words, “It hath not yet happened unto me even until now, and my lord is old also.” ( Gen. xviii. 12 .) And he again so loved her, that in all things he obeyed her commands. And the young child was virtuous, and the servants born in the house, they too were so excellent that they refused not even to hazard their lives with their master; they delayed not, nor asked the reason. Nay, one of them, the chief, was so admirable, that he was even entrusted with the marriage of the only-begotten child, and with a journey into a foreign country. ( Gen. xxiv. …