Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Numbers 20:5

There is 1 footnote for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 3, page 711, footnote 2 (Image)

Tertullian (I, II, III)

Ethical. (HTML)

On Patience. (HTML)

As God is the Author of Patience So the Devil is of Impatience. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 9073 (In-Text, Margin)

... Israel himself also always failed in his duty toward God, from that time when, forgetful of the heavenly arm whereby he had been drawn out of his Egyptian affliction, he demands from Aaron “gods as his guides;” when he pours down for an idol the contributions of his gold: for the so necessary delays of Moses, while he met with God, he had borne with impatience. After the edible rain of the manna, after the watery following of the rock, they despair of the Lord in not enduring a three-days’ thirst;[Numbers 20:1-6] for this also is laid to their charge by the Lord as impatience. And—not to rove through individual cases—there was no instance in which it was not by failing in duty through impatience that they perished. How, moreover, did they lay hands on the ...