Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Numbers 14:24

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 8, page 288, footnote 3 (Image)

Augustine: Expositions on the Psalms

Expositions on the Book of Psalms. (HTML)

Psalm LXVIII (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2712 (In-Text, Margin)

... severed for His inheritance, that is, for His people; because them alone He so fed, not the other nations also: so that what next he saith, “and it was weakened,” is understood of the inheritance being itself weakened; for they murmuring, fastidiously loathed the manna, longing for victuals of flesh, and those things on which they had been accustomed to live in Egypt. … Lastly, all those men in the desert were stricken down, nor were any of them except two found worthy to go into the land of promise.[Numbers 14:23-24] Although even if in the sons of them that inheritance be said to have been perfected, we ought more readily to hold to a spiritual sense. For all those things in a figure did happen to them; until the day should break, and the shadows should be ...