Numbers 20:17 (WEB)
“Please let us pass through your land. We will not pass through field or through vineyard, neither will we drink from the water of the wells. We will go along the king’s highway. We will not turn away to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed your border.”
Fathers and councils · 3
Jerome
“…is careful to observe a mean course in discriminating between them, and, turning neither to the right hand nor to the left, he keeps to the King’s highway, and thus fulfils the injunction, ‘Be not righteous overmuch.’” — editor's note: Nu. xx. 17.
Read the whole comment“He will not suffer you to turn to the right hand or to the left or to leave the king’s highway; for to this Israel pledges itself to keep in its hasty passage to the land of promise.” — editor's note: Num. xx. 17.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“But we must really walk in the King’s highway, and take care not to turn aside from it either to the right hand or to the left, as the Proverbs say.” — editor's note: Numb. xx. 17.
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Cross-references · 1
Numbers 20:17 and Deuteronomy 2:27 share the same wording (12 words).