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Mysticorum expositiones sacramentorum seu Quaestiones in Vetus Testamentum (624 - 636) Isidore of Seville |
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1. Post hanc victoriam factum est verbum Domini ad Abraham in visu, dum esset de posteritate sollicitus, et sibi videret non nasci filium, et tamen semini suo factam promissionem teneret, statim fit illi in figura duplex promissio seminis ejus, id est, in similitudinem arenae maris, vel in multitudinem stellarum caeli futura. 2. Ejiciens ergo Abraham Deus foras, ostendit illi stellas caeli, dicens: Sic faciam semen tuum, id est, christianam gentem, cujus tu pater in fide subsistis, sic faciam lumine resurrectionis coruscare. Deinde monstravit illi arenam maris, et dixit: Sic erit in multitudine semen tuum, hoc est, erit quidem copiosa gens Judaeorum, sed sterilis et infecunda manebit, sicut arena. |
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1. After this victory the word of the Lord was placed into the sight of Abraham, while he was concerned about his posterity, and he saw that no son had been born to him, and however he kept the promise which had been made to him about his seed, and immediately there was to him a double promise about his seed, that is, that it should be like the sand of the sea, or like the stars of heaven. 2. And so God throwing Abraham out, he showed him the stars of heaven, saying, thus shall I make your seed, that is, the Christian people, of whom you shall be the father in faith, thus shall I make you shine with the light of the resurrection. Then he showed him the sand of the sea, and said: thus shall your seed be a multitude, that is, it will be the people of the Jews, however numerous, but sterile and infertile shall it remain, just like sand. |
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In Genesim, Cap. 12, Par. 2, Col. 240 (lin. 40) |
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