Numbers 14:27
How long doth this wicked multitude murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Usquequo multitudo hæc pessima murmurat contra me ? querelas filiorum Israël audivi.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Ἕως τίνος τὴν συναγωγὴν τὴν πονηρὰν ταύτην; αὐτοὶ γογγύζουσιν ἐναντίον ἐμοῦ· τὴν γόγγυσιν τῶν υἱῶν Ἰσραήλ, ἣν ἐγόγγυσαν περὶ ὑμῶν, ἀκήκοα.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- עַד מָתַ֗י לָעֵדָ֤ה הָֽרָעָה֙ הַזֹּ֔את אֲשֶׁ֛ר הֵ֥מָּה מַלִּינִ֖ים עָלָ֑י אֶת תְּלֻנּ֞וֹת בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל אֲשֶׁ֨ר הֵ֧מָּה מַלִּינִ֛ים עָלַ֖י שָׁמָֽעְתִּי
The Fathers on this verse
Tertullian The Five Books Against Marcion, On the Mission of the Seventy Disciples, and Christ's Charge to Them. Precedents Drawn from the Old Testament. Absurdity of Supposing that Marcion's Christ Could Have Given the Power of Treading on Serpents and Scorpions
He likewise adds, that they should say to such as would not receive them: “Notwithstanding be ye sure of this, that the kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.” If He does not enjoin this by way of a commination, the injunction is a most useless one. For what mattered it to them that the kingdom was at hand, unless its approach was accompanied with judgment? even for the salvation of such as received the announcement thereof. How, if there can be a threat without its accomplishment, can you have in a threatening god, one that executes also, and in both, one that is a judicial being? So, again, He commands that the dust be shaken off against them, as a testimony, the very particles of their ground which might cleave to the sandal, not to mention any other sort of communication with them. …