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Notes on Genesis · §37 · Origen of Alexandria

Joseph's dream about his mother and brothers bowing

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Origen is commenting on Joseph's dream in Genesis 37:10, where Joseph's father asks whether he, Joseph's mother, and his brothers will come to bow down to him.

“Is it indeed that I and your mother and your brothers will come and bow down to you upon the earth?” (Genesis 37:10). Joseph’s mother clearly died before the dreams. Perhaps, then, we can say that Mary and Joseph are prophesied as going to bow down to Christ?

Greek

(7) Στίχ.ι΄. Ἆρά γε ἐλθόντες ἐλευσόμεθα ἐγώ τεκαὶ ἡ μήτηρ σου, καὶ οἱ ἀδελφοί σου προσκυνῆσαί σοι ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν;

Σαφῶς ἡ μήτηρ τοῦ Ἰωσὴφ πρὸ τῶν ἐνυπνίων ἐτελεύτησεν. Μήποτε οὖν δυνάμεθα τὴν Μαριὰμ καὶ τὸν Ἰωσὴφ εἰπεῖν προφητεύεσθαι προσκυνήσειν τῷ Χριστῷ;