Numbers 11:2
And when the people cried to Moses, Moses prayed to the Lord, and the fire was swallowed up.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Cumque clamasset populus ad Moysen, oravit Moyses ad Dominum, et absorptus est ignis.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐκέκραξεν ὁ λαὸς πρὸς Μωυσῆν· καὶ ηὔξατο Μωυσῆς πρὸς Κύριον, καὶ ἐκόπασεν τὸ πῦρ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיִּצְעַ֥ק הָעָ֖ם אֶל מֹשֶׁ֑ה וַיִּתְפַּלֵּ֤ל מֹשֶׁה֙ אֶל יְהוָ֔ה וַתִּשְׁקַ֖ע הָאֵֽשׁ
Haydock's commentary
Up, as rain is by the earth, Amos ix. 5.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
Tertullian On Fasting, Chapter V
At length, when a familiar people began to be chosen by God to Himself, and the restoration of man was able to be essayed, then all the laws and disciplines were imposed, even such as curtailed food; certain things being prohibited as unclean, in order that man, by observing a perpetual abstinence in certain particulars, might at last the more easily tolerate absolute fasts. For the first People had withal reproduced the first man’s crime, being found more prone to their belly than to God, when, plucked out from the harshness of Egyptian servitude “by the mighty hand and sublime arm” of God, they were seen to be its lord, destined to the “land flowing with milk and honey;” but forthwith, stumbled at the surrounding spectacle of an incopious desert sighing after the lost enjoyments of Egyptian satiety, they murmured against Moses and Aaron: “Would that we had been smitten to the heart by …