Genesis 29:12
And he told her that he was her father's brother, and the son of Rebecca: but she went in haste and told her father.
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The verse in its languages
- Vulgate (Clementine)
- et indicavit ei quod frater esset patris sui, et filius Rebeccæ : at illa festinans nuntiavit patri suo.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἀνήγγειλεν τῇ Ῥαχὴλ ὅτι ἀδελφὸς τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτῆς ἐστίν, καὶ ὅτι υἱὸς Ῥεβέκκας ἐστίν· ⸂⸆⸃ καὶ δραμοῦσα ἀπήγγειλεν τῷ πατρὶ αὐτῆς ⸆ κατὰ τὰ ῥήματα ταῦτα.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיַּגֵּ֨ד יַעֲקֹ֜ב לְרָחֵ֗ל כִּ֣י אֲחִ֤י אָבִ֨יהָ֙ ה֔וּא וְכִ֥י בֶן רִבְקָ֖ה ה֑וּא וַתָּ֖רָץ וַתַּגֵּ֥ד לְאָבִֽיהָ
Haydock's commentary
Brother, or nephew. The name of brother, in Scripture, almost corresponds with the Consanguineus of the Latins, or our relation.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Lectures or Tractates on the Gospel According to St. John, Chapter II. 12-21
2. “He went down,” as the evangelist says, “to Capernaum, He, and His mother, and His brethren, and His disciples; and they continued there not many days.” Behold He has a mother, and brethren, and disciples: whence He has a mother, thence brethren. For our Scripture is wont to call them brethren, not only that are sprung from the same man and woman, or from the same mother, or from the same father, though by different mothers; or, in truth, that are of the same degree as cousins by the father’s or mother’s side: not these alone is our Scripture wont to call brethren. The Scripture must be understood as it speaks. It has its own language; one who does not know this language is perplexed and says, Whence had the Lord brethren? For surely Mary did not give birth a second time? Far from it! With her begins the dignity of virgins. …