And his father refused, and said, I know [it], my son, I know [it]: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Son père refusa, et dit: Je le sais, mon fils, je le sais; lui aussi deviendra un peuple, lui aussi sera grand; mais son frère cadet sera plus grand que lui, et sa postérité deviendra une multitude de nations.
KJV
And his father refused, and said, I know [it], my son, I know [it]: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.
Philo Judaeus
Legum Allegoriarum Libri I-III
καὶ οὗτος ἔσται εἰς λαὸν καὶ οὗτος ὑψωθήσεται, ἀλλ’ ὁ ἀδελφὸς αὐτοῦ ὁ νεώτερος μείζων αὐτοῦ ἔσται“ (Gen. 48, 19). τί οὖν χρὴ λέγειν ἢ τοῦτο, ὅτι δύο φύσεις ἐδημιουργήθησαν ἐν ψυχῇ ὑπὸ θεοῦ σφόδρα ἀναγκαῖαι, μνήμη τε καὶ ἀνάμνησις; ἀμείνων μὲν ἡ μνήμη, χείρων δὲ ἡ ἀνάμνησις· ἡ μὲν…
Barnabae epistula
Barnabae epistula
ς ἦν: ὁ γὰρ Ἰωσὴφ προσήγαγεν εἰς τὴν δεξιὰν χεῖρα τοῦ πατρὸς Ἰακώβ. εἶδεν δὲ Ἰακὼβ τύπον τῷ πνεύματι Gen. 48, 18-19 τοῦ λαοῦ τοῦ μεταξύ: καὶ τί λέγει; Καὶ ἐποίησεν Ἰακὼβ ἐναλλὰξ τὰς χεῖρας αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐπέθηκεν τὴν δεξιὰν ἐπὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν Ἐφραίμ, τοῦ δευτέρου καὶ νεωτέρου, καὶ εὐλόγη…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 202 (Migne)
, quia hic est primogenitus, pone dexteram super caput ejus; cui Pater: Scio, inquit, fili mi, scio (Gen. XLVIII, 19) . O profundum mysterium! o inscrutabile sacramentum; antiquus dierum novit, quod Joseph nondum intelligit: inseritur oleaster in olivam, et efficitur socius rad…
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