Exodus 16:3 (WEB)
and the children of Israel said to them, “We wish that we had died by the LORD’s hand in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”
Fathers and councils · 7
Jerome
“The people of Israel cast out from Egypt and on their way to the land of promise, the land flowing with milk and honey, longed for the flesh of Egypt, and the melons and garlic, saying: “Would that we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots.”” — editor's note: Ex. xvi. 3.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences I–X III.7Conference III
“…them to murmur in the same way: “It was well with us in Egypt, when we sat over the flesh pots and ate the onions, and garlic, and cucumbers, and melons:” A form of speech, which, although it referred primarily to that people, we yet see fulfilled today in our own case and mode of life: for everyone who after…” — editor's note: Numb. xi. 18; Exod. xvi. 3; Numb. xi. 5.
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Augustine of Hippo
“…and divers forms,—“into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things,” namely, into that Egyptian food for which Esau lost his birthright; for that Thy first-born people worshipped the head of a four-footed beast instead of Thee, turning back in heart towards…” — editor's note: In the Benedictine edition we have reference to Augustin’s in Ps. xlvi. 6, where he says: “We find the lentile is an Egyptian food, for it abounds in Egypt,…
Read the whole comment“…of the Egyptians, nor with melons and gourds, and garlick and onions, which a generation crooked and embittering did prefer even to bread celestial, nor with visible manna, and those same winged fowls; but, “I will be filled, when Thy glory shall be made manifest.”” — editor's note: Exod. xvi. 3.
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John Chrysostom
“For there were the flesh-potswhich the Jews remember; there, the great tyranny of the belly.” — editor's note: Ex. xvi. 3.
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Tertullian
“But so far as I, with my poor powers, understand, the Lord figuratively retorted upon Israel the reproach they had cast on the Lord.” — editor's note: Viz. by their murmuring for bread (see Ex. xvi. 3, 7); and again—nearly forty years after—in another place. See Num. xxi. 5.
Read the whole comment“How leddest thou us out into these deserts, to kill this assembly by famine?”” — editor's note: See Ex. xvi. 1–3.
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Cross-references · 1
Exodus 16:3 and Numbers 14:2 share the same wording (12 words).