THEOSISJohn Chrysostom
God has rescued me from shame, she declares; He has addressed my infertility; He has made atonement for me, bestowed the gift of childbirth upon my womb, and freed me from disgrace.
Genesis 30:22Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
The Lord also remembering Rachel, heard her, and opened her womb.
וַיִּזְכֹּ֥ר אֱלֹהִ֖ים אֶת־רָחֵ֑ל וַיִּשְׁמַ֤ע אֵלֶ֙יהָ֙ אֱלֹהִ֔ים וַיִּפְתַּ֖ח אֶת־רַחְמָֽהּ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Gen 29:31And the Lord seeing that he despised Lia, opened her womb, but her sister remained barren.
- Gen 8:1And God remembered Noe, and all the living creatures, and all the cattle which were with him in the ark, and brought a wind upon the earth, and the waters were abated:
- Ps 113 (112):9
- Gen 25:21And Isaac besought the Lord for his wife, because she was barren: and he heard him, and made Rebecca to conceive.
- 1 Sam 1:19And they rose in the morning, and worshipped before the Lord: and they returned, and came into their house at Ramatha. And Elcana knew Anna his wife: And the Lord remembered her.
- 1 Sam 1:20And it came to pass when the time was come about, Anna conceived and bore a son, and called his name Samuel: because she had asked him of the Lord.
- Gen 21:1And the Lord visited Sara, as he had promised: and fulfilled what he had spoken.
- Gen 21:2And she conceived and bore a son in her old age, at the time that God had foretold her.