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What the Fathers say

Deuteronomy 10:22

Eastern Fathers

Gregory of Nyssa

It is customary for Holy Scripture to imply the whole by the part. For He that said, "Unto Thee shall all flesh come," does not mean that the flesh will be presented before the Judge apart from the souls: and when we read in sacred History that Jacob went down into Egypt with seventy-five souls, we understand the flesh also to be intended together with the souls. …

Against Eunomius 2.13 ↗