Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Numbers 33

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 161, footnote 3 (Image)

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CCEL Footnote 2361 (In-Text, Margin)

... of Numbers written by Moses, and she modestly questioned me as to the meaning of the great mass of names there to be found. Why was it, she inquired, that single tribes were differently associated in this passage and in that, how came it that the soothsayer Balaam in prophesying of the future mysteries of Christ spoke more plainly of Him than almost any other prophet? I replied as best I could and tried to satisfy her enquiries. Then unrolling the book still farther she came to the passage[Numbers 33] in which is given the list of all the halting-places by which the people after leaving Egypt made its way to the waters of Jordan. And when she asked me the meaning and reason of each of these, I spoke doubtfully about some, dealt with others in a ...