Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colors.
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Caesarius of Arles
AD 542
When the Christian people devoutly come to church, of what benefit is it that they hear how the holy patriarchs took their wives or begot their children, unless they perceive in a spiritual sense why these things happened or what the facts prefigured? Behold, we have heard that blessed Jacob begot a son and called his name Joseph and that he loved him more than the rest of his sons. In this place blessed Jacob prefigured God the Father; holy Joseph typified our Lord and Savior. Therefore Jacob loved his son because God the Father loved his onlybegotten Son, as he himself said, “This is my beloved Son.”
