Genesis 33:11
And take the blessing, which I have brought thee, and which God hath given me, who giveth all things. He took it with much ado at his brother's earnest pressing him,
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- et suscipe benedictionem quam attuli tibi, et quam donavit mihi Deus tribuens omnia. Vix fratre compellente, suscipiens,
- Septuagint (Swete)
- λάβε τὰς εὐλογίας μου ἃς ἤνεγκά σοι, ὅτι ἠλέησέν με ὁ θεὸς καὶ ἔστιν μοι πάντα. καὶ ἐβιάσατο αὐτόν, καὶ ἔλαβεν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- קַח נָ֤א אֶת בִּרְכָתִי֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר הֻבָ֣את לָ֔ךְ כִּֽי חַנַּ֥נִי אֱלֹהִ֖ים וְכִ֣י יֶשׁ לִי כֹ֑ל וַיִּפְצַר בּ֖וֹ וַיִּקָּֽח
The Fathers on this verse
Clement of Alexandria The Stromata, or Miscellanies, Chapter XIX. The True Gnostic is an Imitator of God, Especially in Beneficence
And this arrangement was prophetical and typical. And that all things belong to the wise, Scripture clearly indicates when it is said, “Because God hath had mercy on me, I have all things.” For it teaches that we are to desire one thing, by which are all things, and what is promised is assigned to the worthy. Accordingly, the good man who has become heir of the kingdom, it registers also as fellow-citizen, through divine wisdom, with the righteous of the olden time, who under the law and before the law lived according to law, whose deeds have become laws to us; and again, teaching that the wise man is king, introduces people of a different race, saying to him, “Thou art a king before God among us;” those who were governed obeying the good man of their own accord, from admiration of his virtue.