THEOSISJohn Chrysostom
I made a vow to my father, committing to bring the boy and accomplish your purpose, thereby demonstrating that we conveyed the truth to you and that our words contained no deception.
Genesis 44:31Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And he shall see that he is not with us, he will die, and thy servants shall bring down his grey hairs with sorrow unto hell.
וְהָיָ֗ה כִּרְאוֹת֛וֹ כִּי־אֵ֥ין הַנַּ֖עַר וָמֵ֑ת וְהוֹרִ֨ידוּ עֲבָדֶ֜יךָ אֶת־שֵׂיבַ֨ת עַבְדְּךָ֥ אָבִ֛ינוּ בְּיָג֖וֹן שְׁאֹֽלָה׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Gen 44:29If you take this also, and any thing befall him in the way, you will bring down my grey hairs with sorrow unto hell.
- Gen 37:35And all his children being gathered together to comfort their father in his sorrow, he would not receive comfort, but said: I will go down to my son into hell, mourning. And whilst he continued weeping,
- 1 Sam 22:22And David said to Abiathar: I knew that day when Doeg, the Edomite, was there, that without doubt he would tell Saul: I have been the occasion of the death of all the souls of thy father's house.
- 1 Thess 4:13For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again: even so them who have slept through Jesus, will God bring with him.
- 2 Cor 7:10For the sorrow that is according to God worketh penance, steadfast unto salvation: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
- Gen 37:26And Juda said to his brethren: What will it profit us to kill our brother, and conceal his blood?
- Gen 37:27It is better that he be sold to the Ismaelites, and that our hands be not defiled: for he is our brother and our flesh. His brethren agreed to his words.
- 1 Sam 4:17And he that brought the news answered, and said: Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there has been a great slaughter of the people: moreover thy two sons, Ophni and Phinees, are dead: and the ark of God is taken.