Numbers 25:7 (WEB)
When Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from the middle of the congregation, and took a spear in his hand.
Fathers and councils · 8
John Chrysostom
“I mean that in the case of the Jews also, when each had slain his neighbor, then He laid aside His anger against them; both when they made the calf, and when they were joined to Baal Peor.” — editor's note: Exod. xxxii. 29; Numb. xxv. 7–11.
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Jerome
“I have read of the javelin of Phinehas, of the harshness of Elijah, of the jealous anger of Simon the zealot, of the severity of Peter in putting to death Ananias and Sapphira, and of the firmness of Paul who, when Elymas the sorcerer withstood the ways of the Lord, doomed him to lifelong blindness.” — editor's note: Nu. xxv. 7, 8.
Read the whole comment“See to it that Phinehas does not thrust you through with his spear while you are committing fornication with the Midianitish woman.” — editor's note: Num. xxv. 6–8.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“If you had seen the others which took place after your departure you would perhaps have emulated the fervour of the famous Phinehas.” — editor's note: Numbers xxv. 7
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Tertullian
“And of course it is a sufficient one, that so vast a number—(the number) of 24,000—of the People, when they committed fornication with the daughters of Madian, fell in one plague.” — editor's note: See Num. xxv. 1–9; 1 Cor. x. 8.
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Gregory of Nyssa
“Now if we have been conformed to His death, sin henceforth in us is surely a corpse, pierced through by the javelin of Baptism, as that fornicator was thrust through by the zealous Phinehas.” — editor's note: Num. xxv. 7, 8.
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Aphrahat
“Zimri was head of the tribe of Simeon, yet Cozbi, daughter of the chiefs of Midian, overthrew him, and because of one woman twenty-four thousand of Israel fell in one day.” — editor's note: Num. xxv. 6–15.
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Clement of Alexandria
“Remember the four and twenty thousand that were rejected for fornication.” — editor's note: [1 Cor. x. 8; Num. xxv. 1–9. Clement says twenty-four thousand, with the Old Testament, but St. Paul says twenty-three thousand; on which, ad locum, see…
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Cross-references · 2
Numbers 25:7 and Judges 20:28 share the same wording (9 words).
Numbers 25:7 and Ezra 7:5 share the same wording (10 words).