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What the Fathers say

Genesis 31:21

Eastern Fathers

Cyril of Alexandria

The fact that the world should have been offended because of Christ, after the increase in the flocks of believers, and that it, excited by its anger, would have reacted, does not need to be confirmed with a long speech. Just see how Laban, together with his sons, pursued Jacob, who was running away, and recalled him. …

GLAPHYRA ON Genesis, 5.5

Western Saints

Jerome

And he crossed the river and came to the mountain of Gilead. Not that at that time it was called Gilead; but in anticipation, as we have often said, it is called by that name by which it was later called.

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