Genesis 27:2
And his father said to him: Thou seest that I am old, and know not the day of my death.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Cui pater : Vides, inquit, quod senuerim, et ignorem diem mortis meæ.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ εἶπεν Ἰδοὺ γεγήρακα, καὶ οὐ γινώσκω τὴν ἡμέραν τῆς τελευτῆς μου·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיֹּ֕אמֶר הִנֵּה נָ֖א זָקַ֑נְתִּי לֹ֥א יָדַ֖עְתִּי י֥וֹם מוֹתִֽי
The Fathers on this verse
St Athanasius Defence of His Flight. (Apologia de Fuga.), The Lord's hour and time
Now as these things are written in the Scriptures, the case is clear, that the saints know that a certain time is measured to every man, but that no one knows the end of that time is plainly intimated by the words of David, ‘Declare unto me the shortness of my days.’ What he did not know, that he desired to be informed of. Accordingly the rich man also, while he thought that he had yet a long time to live, heard the words, ‘Thou fool, this night they are requiring thy soul: then whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?’ And the Preacher speaks confidently in the Holy Spirit, and says, ‘Man also knoweth not his time.’ Wherefore the Patriarch Isaac said to his son Esau, ‘Behold, I am old, and I know not the day of my death.’ Our Lord therefore, although as God, and the Word of the Father, He both knew the time measured out by Him to all, and was conscious of the time for suffe …