Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Numbers 35:6

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 465, footnote 2 (Image)

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CCEL Footnote 5249 (In-Text, Margin)

A. Your argument is ingenious, but you do not see that it goes against Holy Scripture, which declares that even ignorance is not without sin. Hence it was that Job offered sacrifices for his sons, lest, perchance, they had unwittingly sinned in thought. And if, when one is cutting wood, the axe-head flies from the handle and kills a man, the owner is[Numbers 35:6] commanded to go to one of the cities of refuge and stay there until the high priest dies; that is to say, until he is redeemed by the Saviour’s blood, either in the baptistery, or in penitence which is a copy of the grace of baptism, through the ineffable mercy of the Saviour, who would not have any one perish, nor ...