As the great commentator, the Ramban, teaches, “everything that happened to the patriarchs is a portent for the children.”
The church then became the cathedral of the patriarchs of Constantinople.
They had also a great liking for the patriarchs, especially Noah.
I have become a contemporary of David and the patriarchs of Israel.
It was not made with their Fathers (the patriarchs) but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.
We know little or nothing about the teaching of the patriarchs in the Elohistic age.
How could their patriarchs teach to their classes the lessons of virtue and morality?
"One of the patriarchs, I suppose you mean," replied Fanny, smiling.
The patriarchs in the Bible made mistakes, but they got in the fold.
Walking filially with Nature as the patriarchs walked with God.
late 12c., from Old French patriarche "one of the Old Testament fathers" (11c.) and directly from Late Latin patriarcha (Tertullian), from Greek patriarkhes "chief or head of a family," from patria "family, clan," from pater "father" (see father (n.)) + arkhein "to rule" (see archon). Also used as an honorific title of certain bishops in the early Church, notably those of Antioch, Alexandria, and Rome.
In the Old Testament, the “founding fathers” of the Israelites: Abraham and Isaac, Jacob, and the sons of Jacob. (See Joseph and his brothers.)
