Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Numbers 19:2

There are 2 footnotes for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 5, page 376, footnote 5 (Image)

Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius, Novatian, Appendix

Cyprian. (HTML)

The Epistles of Cyprian. (HTML)

To Januarius and Other Numidian Bishops, on Baptizing Heretics. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2816 (In-Text, Margin)

... of the man who is baptized; because the Lord says by Ezekiel the prophet: “Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be cleansed from all your filthiness; and from all your idols will I cleanse you: a new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you.” But how can he cleanse and sanctify the water who is himself unclean, and in whom the Holy Spirit is not? since the Lord says in the book of Numbers, “And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean.”[Numbers 19:2] Or how can he who baptizes give to another remission of sins who himself, being outside the Church, cannot put away his own sins?

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 200, footnote 32 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

The Letters of St. Jerome. (HTML)

To Eustochium. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2833 (In-Text, Margin)

12. I linger long in the land of the midday sun for it was there and then that the spouse found her bridegroom at rest and Joseph drank wine with his brothers once more. I will return to Jerusalem and, passing through Tekoa the home of Amos, I will look upon the glistening cross of Mount Olivet from which the Saviour made His ascension to the Father. Here year by year a red heifer was burned as a holocaust to the Lord and its ashes were used to purify the children of Israel.[Numbers 19:1-10] Here also according to Ezekiel the Cherubim after leaving the temple founded the church of the Lord.