Genesis 27:18
Which when he had carried in, he said: My father? But he answered: I hear. Who art thou, my son?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Quibus illatis, dixit : Pater mi ? At ille respondit : Audio. Quis es tu, fili mi ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ εἰσήνεγκεν τῷ πατρὶ αὐτοῦ· εἶπεν δέ Πάτερ μου· ὁ δὲ εἶπεν Ἰδοὺ ἐγώ· τίς εἶ σύ, τέκνον;
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיָּבֹ֥א אֶל אָבִ֖יו וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אָבִ֑י וַיֹּ֣אמֶר הִנֶּ֔נִּי מִ֥י אַתָּ֖ה בְּנִֽי
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Against Lying, Section 24
24. Touching Jacob, however, that which he did at his mother’s bidding, so as to seem to deceive his father, if with diligence and in faith it be attended to, is no lie, but a mystery. The which if we shall call lies, all parables also, and figures designed for the signifying of any things soever, which are not to be taken according to their proper meaning, but in them is one thing to be understood from another, shall be said to be lies: which be far from us altogether. For he who thinks this, may also in regard of tropical expressions of which there are so many, bring in upon all of them this calumny; so that even metaphor, as it is called, that is, the usurped transferring of any word from its proper object to an object not proper, may at this rate be called a lie. …