{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-6061","native_reference":{"book_number":10,"chapter_from":33,"chapter_to":33,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":10,"verse_to":10},"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 THESE WORDS: I SAW YOUR FACE AS WHEN ONE SEES THE FACE OF A GOD. — What does Jacob mean to his brother: therefore have I seen your face, as if anyone should see the face of God ? Is it possible that the words of a frightened and disturbed person have reached such a degree of adoration? Can they perhaps be taken as blameless to indicate some special meaning? Perhaps, indeed, since even the gods of the gentiles, who are demons (Cf. Ps. 95:5), are called gods, do not misjudge the man of God by these words, for he did not say: \"as if I saw the face of God”, but as if anyone should see . But we do not know who that \"anyone\" is to whom it could mean. And perhaps the words have been chosen so that Esau himself would welcome the honor so great his brother did to him. And those who are able to interpret them even in a different way, do not dare to accuse the one who said them of any sin. For although these words, spoken with good intention, are fraternal, and since even fear itself had disappeared after the brother had received them well, that expression could be used, just as, for example, Moses was also called the god of Pharaoh (Cf. Exodus 7:1), according to what the Apostle says, “Although there are those who are called gods or in heaven or on earth, as there are many gods and many lords (1 Cor. 8:5).” And it may be said above all in view of the fact that in Greek the word does not carry an article, because it is used most obviously to indicate the only true God. Actually it did not say, προσωπον του Θεου, but προσωπον Θεου. Now, those who often hear and understand the Greek language, easily understand the difference between these two expressions. [<br/><i>— QUESTIONS ON GENESIS, Q. 104 (tr. J. Litteral, draft)</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"322f1cf771c30f859859c1a4de3b0232ef9abbcce63c12dc5726042152ef55db","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":6061,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"3cbfdb612bef034bd7a5060f533fb4171d35d6c4603a8f177317b161c103eb0c","translator":null,"work":null}