Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Numbers 7:24

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 94, footnote 3 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

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CCEL Footnote 1363 (In-Text, Margin)

10. Many build churches nowadays; their walls and pillars of glowing marble, their ceilings glittering with gold, their altars studded with jewels. Yet to the choice of Christ’s ministers no heed is paid. And let no one allege against me the wealth of the temple in Judæa, its table, its lamps, its censers, its dishes, its cups, its spoons,[Numbers 7:24] and the rest of its golden vessels. If these were approved by the Lord it was at a time when the priests had to offer victims and when the blood of sheep was the redemption of sins. They were figures typifying things still future and were “written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the world are come.” But now our Lord ...