Genesis 24:64
Rebecca also, when she saw Isaac, lighted off the camel,
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Rebecca quoque, conspecto Isaac, descendit de camelo,
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἀναβλέψασα Ῥεβέκκα τοῖς ὀφθαλμοῖς ἴδεν τὸν Ἰσαὰκ καὶ κατεπήδησεν ἀπὸ τῆς καμήλου,
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַתִּשָּׂ֤א רִבְקָה֙ אֶת עֵינֶ֔יהָ וַתֵּ֖רֶא אֶת יִצְחָ֑ק וַתִּפֹּ֖ל מֵעַ֥ל הַגָּמָֽל
The Fathers on this verse
Tertullian On Prayer, Answer to the Foregoing Arguments
They who make this concession ought to reflect on the nature of the word itself, what is the meaning of “woman” from the very first records of the sacred writings. Here they find it to be the name of the sex , not a class of the sex : if, that is, God gave to Eve, when she had not yet known a man, the surname “woman” and “female”, (“female,” whereby the sex generally; “woman,” hereby a class of the sex, is marked). So, since at that time the as yet unwedded Eve was called by the word “woman,” that word has been made common even to a virgin. Nor is it wonderful that the apostle, guided, of course, by the same Spirit by whom, as all the divine Scripture, so that book Genesis, was drawn up, has used the selfsame word in writing “women,” which, by the example of Eve unwedded, is applicable too to a “virgin.” In fact, all the other passages are in consonance herewith. …