Numbers 16:48

Jerome

• Jerome, Letters Letter 128

  “The High Priest stood between the dead and the living, and the fire dared not pass his feet.” — editor's note: Nu. xvi. 46–48, Vulg.

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Ambrose of Milan

• Ambrose of Milan, Letters Letter 15

  “A man clearly worthy to be proposed that all should follow him was he, for when a terrible death on account of the rebels was spreading over the people, he offered himself between the dead and the living, that he might arrest death, and that no more should perish.” — editor's note: Num. xvi. 48.

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• Ambrose of Milan, On the Duties of the Clergy II.4Book II

  “When did he ever think himself more blessed than when he stood between the living and the dead, and by his presence stayed death from passing from the bodies of the dead to the lines of the living?” — editor's note: Num. xvi. 48.

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• 1 Kings 17:6

  Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.4.

• 1 Kings 17:14

  Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.4.

• Matthew 17:3

  Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.4.

• Luke 6:20

  Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.4.

• Luke 6:21

  Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.4.

• Philippians 3:7

  Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.4.

• Philippians 3:8

  Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.4.

• Exodus 16:13

  Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.4.