Esau
historical figure · 8 works · 8 mentions · 8 anchored passages
Esau the hunter of wild beasts · the elder son
in the texts
Letters
Biblical figure invoked as symbol of the adversary from whom Basil seeks freedom.
Who would become my Laban, freeing me from Esau and leading me as a guide to the highest philosophy?
Stromata
Esau, cited as an example of profanity for selling his birthright.
"But rather," he says, "pursue peace with all men, and sanctification, without which no one shall see the Lord, looking carefully lest anyone be a fornicator or profane, as Esau, who for one meal gave up his birthright;
Economics of Socialism
Biblical figure who sold his birthright for food when famishing, used as a counterexample to Jevons's claim about the infinite utility of food.
Thus the total utility of the food we eat consists in maintaining life, and may be considered as infinitely great” – didn’t Esau, when famishing, sell his birthright for a mess of pottage?
Ancient Law
Biblical patriarch whose family separates from Jacob's to form a distinct nation.
The families of Jacob and Esau separate and form two nations;
The Rights of War and Peace
Son of Isaac named as ancestor of other circumcised nations, including the Idumaeans.
Wherefore there is reason to believe that the numerous nations, who, besides the Israelites, practiced circumcision, and who are mentioned by Herodotus, Strabo, Philo, Justin, Origen, Clemens, Alexandrinus, Epiphanius, and Jerom, were descended from Ishmael, Esau, or the posterity of Keturah.
Adversus Judaeos
Elder son of Rebecca, typologically representing rejected Israel in the passage's contrast with Jacob.
Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord and to the house of the God of Jacob — not of Esau, the elder son, but of Jacob, the later, that is, of our people, whose mountain is Christ, cut out without the hands of those who hew, filling all the earth, as shown in Daniel.
Adversus Marcionem
Patriarch interpreted as a type of the Jewish people, receiving the earthly blessing before the heavenly.
" For the arrangement of the Jews is in Esau — of sons elder by birth and later by affection — first imbued with earthly goods through the law, afterward led to heavenly things through the gospel by believing.
De ieiunio adversus psychicos
The biblical figure who sold his birthright for food, invoked as a type for the gluttonous opponent.
I always recognize the savour of Esau the hunter of wild beasts;