Genesis 29:13
Who, when he heard that Jacob his sister's son was come, ran forth to meet him; and embracing him, and heartily kissing him, brought him into his house. And when he had heard the causes of his journey,
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Qui cum audisset venisse Jacob filium sororis suæ, cucurrit obviam ei : complexusque eum, et in oscula ruens, duxit in domum suam. Auditis autem causis itineris,
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐγένετο ὡς ἤκουσεν Λαβὰν τὸ ὄνομα Ἰακὼβ τοῦ υἱοῦ τῆς ἀδελφῆς αὐτοῦ, ἔδραμεν εἰς συνάντησιν αὐτοῦ, καὶ περιλαβὼν αὐτὸν ἐφίλησεν, καὶ εἰσήγαγεν αὐτὸν εἰς τὸν οἶκον αὐτοῦ· καὶ διηγήσατο τῷ Λαβὰν πάντας τοὺς λόγους τούτους.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיְהִי֩ כִשְׁמֹ֨עַ לָבָ֜ן אֶת שֵׁ֣מַע יַעֲקֹ֣ב בֶּן אֲחֹת֗וֹ וַיָּ֤רָץ לִקְרָאתוֹ֙ וַיְחַבֶּק לוֹ֙ וַיְנַשֶּׁק ל֔וֹ וַיְבִיאֵ֖הוּ אֶל בֵּית֑וֹ וַיְסַפֵּ֣ר לְלָבָ֔ן אֵ֥ת כָּל הַדְּבָרִ֖ים הָאֵֽלֶּה
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. …