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The City of God

Chapter 33.--Of Rebecca, the Grand-Daughter of Nahor, Whom Isaac Took to Wife.

Isaac married Rebecca, the grand-daughter of Nahor, his father's brother, when he was forty years old, that is, in the 140th year of his father's life, three years after his mother's death. Now when a servant was sent to Mesopotamia by his father to fetch her, and when Abraham said to that servant, "Put thy hand under my thigh, and I will make thee swear by the Lord, the God of heaven, and the Lord of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son Isaac of the daughters of the Canaanites," ¹ what else was pointed out by this, but that the Lord, the God of heaven, and the Lord of the earth, was to come in the flesh which was to be derived from that thigh? Are these small tokens of the foretold truth which we see fulfilled in Christ?

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De civitate Dei (CCSL)

Caput XXXIII: De Rebecca nepte Nachor, quam Isaac accepit uxorem.

Deinde Rebeccam neptem Nachor patrui sui, cum annorum quadraginta esset Isaac, duxit uxorem, centensimo scilicet et quadragensimo anno uitae patris sui, triennio post mortem matris suae. ut autem illam duceret, quando ab eius patre in Mesopotamiam seruus missus est, quid aliud demonstratum est, cum eidem seruo dixit Abraham: pone manum tuam sub femore meo, et adiurabo te per dominum deum caeli et dominum terrae, ut non sumas uxorem filio meo Isaac a filiabus Chananaeorum, nisi dominum deum caeli et dominum terrae in carne, quae ex illo femore trahebatur, fuisse uenturum? numquid haec parua sunt praenuntiatae indicia ueritatis, quam conpleri uidemus in Christo?