Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Numbers 5:15

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 8, page 304, footnote 4 (Image)

Basil: Letters and Select Works

The Letters. (HTML)

To Eulogius, Alexander, and Harpocration, bishops of Egypt, in exile. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 3203 (In-Text, Margin)

... Jews. He proclaims the renewal of the Temple, the observance of the worship of the Law, a typical high priest over again after the real High Priest, and a sacrifice for sins after the Lamb of God Who taketh away the sin of the world. He preaches partial baptisms after the one baptism, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling the Church which, through its faith in Christ, has not spot or wrinkle, or any such thing; cleansing of leprosy after the painless state of the resurrection; an offering of jealousy[Numbers 5:15] when they neither marry nor are given in marriage; shew-bread after the Bread from heaven; burning lamps after the true Light. In a word, if the law of the Commandments has been done away with by dogmas, it is plain that under these circumstances ...