Psalm 78:31 (WEB)
when the anger of God went up against them, killed some of their strongest, and struck down the young men of Israel.
Fathers and councils · 2
Augustine of Hippo
“…and embittering generation, as it were, while the morsel was yet in their mouths, “the anger of God went up upon them, and it slew among the most of them” (ver. 31): that is, the most of them, or as some copies have it, “the fat ones of them,” which however in the Greek copies which we had, we did not find.” — the author cites it
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Tertullian
“That all things, plainly, were conceded to the Jew, we shall admit; but he has likewise had every more savoury morsel torn from his throat, not to say the very land of paternal promise.” — editor's note: See Ps. lxxviii. 30, 31 (in LXX. it is lxxvii. 30, 31).
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