Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Numbers 4:39

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 361, footnote 13 (Image)

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CCEL Footnote 4370 (In-Text, Margin)

... marriage. If the sister of a priest dies in virginity, just as the priest is commanded to go to the funeral of his father and mother, so must he go to hers. But if she be married, she is despised as though she belonged not to him. He who has married a wife, and he who has planted a vineyard, an image of the propagation of children, is forbidden to go to the battle. For he who is the slave of his wife cannot be the Lord’s soldier. And the laver in the tabernacle was cast from the mirrors of the women who[Numbers 4:39] fasted, signifying the bodies of pure virgins: And within, in the sanctuary, both cherubim, and mercy-seat, and the ark of the covenant, and the table of shew-bread, and the candle-stick, and the censer, were made of the purest gold. For silver ...