Rebecca
historical figure · 8 works · 10 mentions · 10 anchored passages
his sister
in the texts
Stromata
Wife of Isaac, allegorized as 'endurance'.
He was the husband of one woman, Rebecca, whom they translate "endurance.
And of women (for these too prophesied), Sarah and Rebecca and Mariam and Deborah and Olda.
" And Rebecca is interpreted "the glory of God";
Letters
Matriarch cited in the semantic argument about 'knowing'.
And of Rebecca it says, 'A virgin;
Adversus Judaeos
Matriarch to whom God spoke the oracle of two nations, interpreted as prefiguring the Jews and the Christians.
Yet we have God himself as a worthy promiser and a faithful surety, who promised Abraham that in his seed all the nations of the earth would be blessed, and that from the womb of Rebecca two peoples and two nations would come forth — namely the Jews, that is Israel, and the nations, that is our own.
De Anima
Biblical mother whose twin sons struggled in her womb, cited as proof of the prenatal soul.
Behold, the bowels of Rebecca are disquieted, and the birth is still far off, and there is no impulse of air;
De Corona
Biblical matriarch who veiled herself upon seeing Isaac, cited as an example in the discussion of veiling customs.
If Rebecca, on catching sight of her bridegroom afar off, seized a veil, a private modesty could not make a law—or it made one only for her own case.
De Cultu Feminarum
Wife of Isaac, disguised as his sister to protect him
For although comeliness is not to be accused, as the felicity of the body, as an accession of the divine modelling, as some good garment of the soul, yet it is to be feared, even on account of the injury and violence of its pursuers—which even Abraham, the father of faith, dreaded in the beauty of his wife, and Isaac, falsely calling Rebecca his sister, redeemed his safety by a humiliation.
De Oratione
Rebecca, who veiled herself upon first seeing her betrothed.
And Rebecca is example enough for us, who, when her bridegroom was pointed out, veiled herself for marriage merely on knowing him.
De Pudicitia
Mother of Jacob and Esau, whose womb prefigures the two peoples.
Much more aptly would they have matched the Christian to the elder and the Jew to the younger son, according to the comparison of faith, if the order of each people, designated from the womb of Rebecca, permitted the exchange.