Exodus 28:33 (WEB)
On its hem you shall make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, all around its hem; with bells of gold between and around them:
Fathers and councils · 2
Justin Martyr
““Moreover, the prescription that twelve bells be attached to the [robe] of the high priest, which hung down to the feet, was a symbol of the twelve apostles, who depend on the power of Christ, the eternal…” — editor's note: Ex. xxviii. 33 gives no definite number of bells. Otto presumes Justin to have confounded the bells and gems, which were twelve in number.
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Gregory the Great
“Hence it is enjoined on Moses that when the priest goes into the tabernacle he shall be encompassed with bells (Exod. xxviii. 33); that is, that he shall have about him the sounds of preaching, lest he provoke by his silence the judgment of Him Who beholds him from above.” — the author cites it
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Cross-references · 3
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 42.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 42.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 42.