Augustine of Hippo : APPEARANCES OF GOD TO JACOB. — God said to Jacob, Arise and go up to the place of Bethel and live there and make an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from the presence of your brother Esau . Why does he not say: and make there an altar for me, that I have appeared to you, but it is God who says: Make there an altar to the God who appeared to you ? Did the Son appear there, and God the Father said this? Or is it attributed to some special type of expression? [ — QUESTIONS ON GENESIS, Q. 109 (tr. J. Litteral, draft)