Numbers 16:11
And that all thy company should stand against the Lord? for what is Aaron that you murmur against him?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- et omnis globus tuus stet contra Dominum ? quid est enim Aaron ut murmuretis contra eum ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- οὕτως σὺ καὶ πᾶσα ἡ συναγωγή σου ἡ συνηθροισμένη πρὸς τὸν θεόν· καὶ Ἀαρὼν τίς ἐστιν ὅτι διαγογγύζετε κατ᾽ αὐτοῦ;
- Hebrew (WLC)
- לָכֵ֗ן אַתָּה֙ וְכָל עֲדָ֣תְךָ֔ הַנֹּעָדִ֖ים עַל יְהוָ֑ה וְאַהֲרֹ֣ן מַה ה֔וּא כִּ֥י תלונו עָלָֽיו
Haydock's commentary
Him. The injury is offered to God, who made choice of Aaron freely.
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
St John Chrysostom The Commentary and Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Galatians and Ephesians, Ephesians 4:4-7
I mean these remarks for those who give themselves up indiscriminately to the men who are dividing the Church. For if on the one hand those men have doctrines also contrary to ours, then on that account further it is not right to mix with them: if, on the other hand, they hold the same opinions, the reason for not mixing with them is greater still. And why so? Because then the disease is from lust of authority. Know ye not what was the fate of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram? ( Num. xvi. 1-35 .) Of them only did I say? Was it not also of them that were with them? What wilt thou say? Shall it be said, “Their faith is the same, they are orthodox as well as we”? If so, why then are they not with us? There is “one Lord, one faith, one baptism.” If their cause is right, then is ours wrong; if ours is right, then is theirs wrong. …
St Ambrose Epistle LXIII: To the Church at Vercellæ
54. And Moses said to Korah: “Hear me, ye sons of Levi: Is this a small thing unto you, that God hath separated you from the congregation of Israel, and brought you near to Himself, to minister the service of the Tabernacle of the Lord.” And farther on, “Seek ye the priesthood also, so that thou and all thy congregation are gathered against the Lord. And what is Aaron that ye murmur about him?”