Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Numbers 20:24

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 8, page 487, footnote 1 (Image)

Augustine: Expositions on the Psalms

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CCEL Footnote 4531 (In-Text, Margin)

... what He had begun, not to condemn what He had cast away. God therefore punished all their affections. How did He punish Samuel? where is this punishment?…What was said unto Moses was a type, not a punishment. What punishment is death to an old man? What punishment was it, not to enter into that land, into which unworthy men entered? But what is said of Aaron? He also died an old man: his sons succeeded him in the priesthood: his son afterwards ruled in the priesthood: how did He punish Aaron also?[Numbers 20:24-28] Samuel also died a holy old man, leaving his sons as his successors. I seek for the punishment inflicted upon them, and according to men I find it not: but according to what I know the servants of God suffer every day, they were day by day punished. ...