Genesis 31:45
And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a title:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Tulit itaque Jacob lapidem, et erexit illum in titulum :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- λαβὼν δὲ Ἰακὼβ λίθον ἔστησεν αὐτὸν στήλην.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיִּקַּ֥ח יַעֲקֹ֖ב אָ֑בֶן וַיְרִימֶ֖הָ מַצֵּבָֽה
The Fathers on this verse
St John Chrysostom The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Timothy, Titus, and Philemon, 1 Timothy 5:21-23
But who are the elect Angels? It is because there are some not elect. As Jacob calls to witness God and the heap ( Gen. xxxi. 45 .), so we often take at once superior and inferior persons to witness; so great a thing is testimony. As if he had said, I call to witness God and His Son and His servants, that I have charged thee: so before them I charge thee. He impresses Timothy with fear; after which he adds, what was most vital, and bears most on the maintenance of the Church, the matter of Ordinations. “Lay hands,” he says, “suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men’s sins.” What is “suddenly”? Not upon a first, nor a second, nor a third trial, but after frequent and strict examination and circumspection. For it is an affair of no common peril. …