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Genesis 29:17Gen.29.17

Leah [was] tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favoured.

KJV

Hebrew original

Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Léa avait les yeux délicats; mais Rachel était belle de taille et belle de figure.

KJV

Leah [was] tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favoured.

Patristic reading

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  • Epiphanius

    Panarion (Adversus Haereses)

    einer zeitlichen Aufeinanderfolge geneint ist — 8 Luk. 11, 47 – 14 Deut. 18, 15 – 16 Gen. 49 9f —18 Gen. 29, 10 – 19 Jes. 7, 14 —20 Jeren. 17, 9 —21 Mich. 5, 2 —22 Mal. 3, 1—25 Joh. 5, 46 V M 8 f vgl. s. 111, 1t 1f εὐρήσεις Pet.] εὔρεσις VM 3 Ἀδδεᾶ *, vgl. I 210, 210, 3 u. s. 459…
  • Theodoretus

    Historia Ecclesiastica

    ν τῇ Θεσσαλονικαίων πόλει, 3 vgl. Joh. 8, 4 f — — 6 vgl. Ezech. 7, 18. Jes. 15, 2. Arnos 8, 10 — 6—8 Gen. 29, 17. 49, 12. I Kön. 12, 24iB (A 14, 4) — 10/11 Jerem. 38 11 Jes. 1, 21 — 12/13 Matth. 15, 22. 9, 20 — 13/14 Psal. 3, 4 u. ö — 14 15 vgl. I ön. 8, 50 — 18 Psal. 12, 5 — 18/…
  • Thomas Aquinas

    Summa Theologica

    templative life gives beauty to the soul," wherefore it is signified by Rachel, of whom it is said ( Gn. 29:17 ) that she was "of a beautiful countenance." Now the beauty of the soul consists in the moral virtues, especially temperance, as Ambrose says (De Offic. i, 43,45,46). Th…

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