{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-6006","native_reference":{"book_number":10,"chapter_from":30,"chapter_to":30,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":11,"verse_to":11},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>Augustine of Hippo</b>: ON FORTUNE. — The Latin manuscripts read that at the birth of the son of Zelfa, Leah said: \"I have become happy or blessed;\" the Greek manuscripts have: ευτυχη, which means rather \"good fortune.\" Unintelligent readers conclude from this that this man adored fortune or that the authority of the Scriptures consecrated this word. Now either the word fortune must be understood in relation to those things which seem to happen by chance, not because there is any divinity, since the very things that seem to happen by chance happen in reality for hidden reasons, because God does so; from there it is derived that there are words that no one can derive from linguistic usage, such as forte (by chance), fortasse (possibly), and forsitan (perhaps), and fortuito (accidentally), and such a thing seems to echo also in the Greek language in using the word ταχα, as derived from ταχη. Or surely Leah spoke that way because she had kept this habit of the Gentiles. For it was not Jacob who used this term, and cannot be considered as authorized by the patriarch. [<br/><i>— QUESTIONS ON GENESIS, Q. 90 (tr. J. Litteral, draft)</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"19432febcf0ec68f998477a70c62891ae733b7c12fcfe7c56cabcd17447732c0","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":6006,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"fc9cb1516fe5800803354e0a28fed63e1ae5a0ffc0e3ff6c6272412d394fca13","translator":null,"work":null}