Numbers 25:8

“…to God), that God would not be otherwise appeased than as Phineas the Priest appeased Him, when he slew a man and a woman together whom he found in adultery.” — editor's note: Numb. xxv. 8.

“And why do I mention these things? when killing, which among all is acknowledged to be an invention of the evil one, killing, I say, having found its proper occasion, caused Phinehas, who committed it, to be honored with the priesthood.” — editor's note: Num. xxv. 8.

“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.

“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.

“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.

“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.

“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.

“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.

“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…

“Si autem in luce ambulamus, sicut et ipse est in luce, societatem habemus cum ipso, et sanguis Jesu filii ejus emundat nos a peccato.”” — editor's note: Num. xxv. 8; 1 John i. 6, 7.