Letter 86
To the Same Person.
The holy Jacob, crossing his hands, blessed those around Ephraim and Manasseh [Genesis 48, where the dying patriarch lays his right hand on the younger grandson]. And behold the wonder: for by the crossing of his hands he formed the figure of the Cross of the Lord, and thereby bestowed the divine blessings upon his grandsons, and he sets the first second and the second first.
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Latin / Greek Original
Ἐναλλάξας τὰς χεῖρας ὁ ἅγιος Ἰακώβ, τοὺς περὶ τὸν Ἐφραῒμ καὶ τὸν Μανασσῆν ηὐλόγησεν. Καὶ βλέπε τὸ θαυμαστόν· τῆς γὰρ ἐναλλαγῇ τῶν χειρῶν ἐκτυπώσας τὸν σταυρὸν τοῦ Κυρίου, παρέσχε τοῖς ἐγγόνοις τὰς θείας εὐλογίας, καὶ τίθησι τὸν πρῶτον δεύτερον καὶ τὸν δεύτερον πρῶτον.
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern nilus ancyra workflow v1.
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