{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-5949","native_reference":{"book_number":10,"chapter_from":27,"chapter_to":27,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":42,"verse_to":42},"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>Origen of Alexandria</b>: But falsehood cannot seize those who flee from the Judea of the letter to the spiritual and intelligible things and the sublime mountains of truth. And that we may understand let them flee into the mountains, take as an example what is said manifestly of a praiseworthy flight, such as what the Apostle says: \"flee fornication\", and what Wisdom says: \"as from the face of a serpent, flee sin\", or such as what Rebecca says to Jacob in a mystery: \"behold, Esau thy brother threatens to kill thee. Now therefore, my son, hear my voice, and rising up flee to Laban my brother in Haran; and dwell with him some days, until the wrath of thy brother be turned away\". And everyone (I think) who is a son of Jacob, completing the works of Jacob, understanding every disposition hateful to God, which is Esau, flees as one who understands. But if he does not flee it, he is a fornicator and defiled like Esau, and, as one not fleeing Esau but dwelling together with him, he does not become a son of Jacob, who had fled it. But Jacob himself, dwelling with Laban usefully for himself and for the dispensation which was according to God, \"hid the heart of the Syrian, so that he did not announce to him that he was fleeing\", and he himself was fleeing \"and all that was his\". It is good, therefore, to flee even from Laban, from the counselor of carnal qualities, in which one who dwells ought not to remain, but to flee with his whole household. For even if he should wish to pursue after him, God will turn him away from those fleeing him, so that, even if he should afterward at some time seize him, he can do him no evil while he confidently declares and says: \"with whomsoever thou shalt find thy gods, let him not live in the sight of our brethren: recognize what of thine is with me, and take it\"; for nothing can be recognized among Jacob of the things of Laban.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON Matthew 42</i></p><p><b>Augustine of Hippo</b>: HOW DID REBECCA KNOW ESAU'S MURDEROUS PLANS? — How were they announced, or reported to Rebekah, of Esau's death threats against his brother (Cf. Gen. 27:41)? For the Scripture affirms that he thought about it within himself. The explanation is that by this we know that all things were revealed to them by the influence of God. Therefore, the fact that Isaac wanted to bless his younger son instead of the eldest is something that holds a great mystery. [<br/><i>— QUESTIONS ON GENESIS, Q. 80 (tr. J. Litteral, draft)</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"bf565b24b67b6d745be7f2830bf778a43e341b4779efd5adea178166741d9cf9","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":5949,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"21eac88353745d3791714f8ebb130ab3786100f50c105f3e70918aa9f7b16259","translator":null,"work":null}