The First Book of Moses: Genesis
⭑ Catholic Public Domain Version 2009 ⭑
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Footnotes
(a)16:3
To wife: Plurality of wives, though contrary to the primitive institution of marriage, Gen. 2:24, was by divine dispensation allowed to the patriarchs: which allowance seems to have continued during the time of the law of Moses. But Christ our Lord reduced marriage to its primitive institution. Matt. 19.(Challoner)
(b)16:8 The dangling participle at the end of the Angel’s question is grammatically incorrect, but is left in that form because that is the way that people speak in conversation.(Conte)
(c)16:10 The repetition of using multiplicans with multiplicabo does not merely indicate intensity, but in this case also indicates that the multiplying of her offspring continues through subsequent generations, and does not merely refer to her immediate offspring.(Conte)
(d)16:13 She saw His back, in other words, not His face, which would connotate a greater knowledge of God than she had. She met God, but did not know him well, seeing as it were His back, not His face.(Conte)