Numbers 14:29 (WEB)
Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all who were counted of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have complained against me,
Fathers and councils · 2
John Chrysostom
“But here he means not unbelief only, but also murmurings: “whose carcasses,” he says, “fell’ in the wilderness.”” — editor's note: The words of the Apostle, c. iii. 17 , are those of Num. xiv. 29 , &c., where murmuring is the sin specified.
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Ambrose of Milan
“However, He said they should not come to that land which they had refused, as a penalty for their unbelief; but their children and wives, who had not murmured, and who, owing to their sex and age, were guiltless, should receive the promised inheritance of that land.” — editor's note: Num. xiv. 29.
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Cross-references · 3
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy III.8.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy III.8.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy III.8.