Numbers 11:5 (WEB)
We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic;
Fathers and councils · 5
Jerome
“And again, “Who shall give us flesh to eat?” — editor's note: Numb. xi. 4–6.
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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“…for they murmuring, fastidiously loathed the manna, longing for victuals of flesh, and those things on which they had been accustomed to live in Egypt.…” — editor's note: Numb. xi. 5, 6.
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Tertullian
“But now our soul is arid: nought save manna do our eyes see!”” — editor's note: See Num. xi. 1–6.
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