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Jude 1:11 (WEB)
Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in Korah’s rebellion.

Fathers and councils · 5

Cyprian of Carthage, Epistles Letter 64
“And that we may know that this voice of God came forth with His true and highest majesty to honour and avenge His priests; when three of the ministers—Korah, Dathan, and Abiram—dared to deal proudly, and to exalt their neck against Aaron the priest, and to equal themselves with the priest set over them; they…” — editor's note: [i.e., Levites—deacons. But Korah and the Levites (Num. xvi. 9, 10) must be regarded apart from the Reubenites (laics) who sinned with them. Jude 11.]
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Cyprian of Carthage, Epistles Letter 75
“…“a memorial to the children of Israel, that no stranger which is not of the seed of Aaron come near to offer incense before the Lord, that he be not as Korah.”” — editor's note: Num. xvii. 5 [and Jude 11.]
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Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 106
“Both Dathan and Abiram were equally concerned in a most sacrilegious schism.” — editor's note: [Numb. xvi. 1; Jude 11. Dathan and Abiram were laymen; Korah and others were Levites who presumed to exercise the higher offices of the priesthood. Numb. xvi.…
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Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata, or Miscellanies Book 3
“De his et similibus hæresibus existimo Judam prophetice dixisse in epistola: “Similiter quidera hi quoque somniantes” (non enim vigilantes ad veritatem se applicant), usque ad illud: “Et os eorum loquitur superba.”” — editor's note: Jude 8–17.
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Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata, or Miscellanies Chapter 2
““Woe unto them!” he says, “for they have gone in the way of Cain.”” — editor's note: Ver. 11.
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