Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Numbers 34:15

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 413, footnote 7 (Image)

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CCEL Footnote 4925 (In-Text, Margin)

... counterpart in the spiritual and heavenly promises of the other. What is the meaning of the seven and eight steps in the description of the temple? or again, what significance attaches to the fact that in the Psalter, after being taught the mystic alphabet by the one hundred and eighteenth psalm we arrive by fifteen steps at the point where we can sing: “Behold, now bless the Lord, all ye servants of the Lord: ye who stand in the house of the Lord, in the courts of the house of our God.” Why did[Numbers 34:15] two tribes and a half dwell on the other side of Jordan, a district abounding in cattle, while the remaining nine tribes and a half either drove out the old inhabitants from their possessions, or dwelt with them? Why did the tribe of Levi receive no ...