The Inheritors

Χεβρὼν συζυγὴ ἑρμηνεύεταυ. Διὰ τί δὲ συζυγὴ προσηγορεύθη ὁ τόπος; Ὅτι ἐκεῖ κατὰ συζυγίαν κεῖνται Ἀβραὰμ καὶ Σάῥῥα, Ἰσαὰκ καὶ Ῥεβέκκα, Ἰακὼβ καὶ Λία. Καλῶς τοίνυν ὁ θεοφιλὴς Χαλὲβ πολλῇ σπουδῇ καὶ πόνῳ, καὶ ἱδρῶτι ἔλαβε τὴν μνήμην τῶν ἀοιδίμων πατριαρχῶν, ἤτις μητρόπολις ὑπῆρχε τῶν Ἐνακὶμ, καταφρονεύσας τοὺς τῶν ὑπερηφάνων γιγάντων ἀσεβεῖς, καὶ φαύλους ἀπογόνους· καὶ γίνεται κλῆρος τοῦ Χαλὲβ πᾶσα ἡ γῆ, ἐν ᾑπερ ἐτύψχανον οἱ τάφοι τῶν μακαρίων ἐκείνων. Μη ἀθυμήσῃς· καὶ γὰρ καὶ σοὶ δέδοται πιστεύσαντι τῷ ἐκ σπέρματος Ἀβραὰμ γεγεννημένῳ Χριστῷ, κλῆρος νοητός. Θεὸς γάρ σου γέγονεν ὁ Θεὸς τῶν ἀειμνήστων πατριαρχῶν. Ἅγιος Νειλος, Βιβλίον Πρῶτον, Ἐπιστολή ΟΒ' ΟΓ' Πομπηιῳ Διακονῳ Source: Migne PG 79.113c-d

Hebron is translated as union. And why is this place so called? For there lay the conjoined Abraham and Sarah, and Issac and Rebecca, and Jacob and Leah. Well, then, did the God loving Caleb with zeal and labour and sweat guard the memory of the celebrated Patriachs, which was the metropolis of the Anakim, those impious ones of great arrogance who were cut off with the inferior descendants, and this was the inheritance of Caleb, all that land, in which were the tombs of those blessed ones. 1 Do not despond, then, for to you who believe that Christ rose from the seed of Abraham is given a rational inheritance. For your God is the God of the Patriarchs of eternal memory. Saint Nilus of Sinai, Book 1, Letter 72-73 to Pompeius the Deacon 1 Joshua 14.13-15