Numbers 16:6
Do this therefore: Take every man of you your censers, thou Core, and all thy company.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Hoc igitur facite : tollat unusquisque thuribula sua, tu Core, et omne concilium tuum :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- τοῦτο ποιήσατε· λάβετε ὑμῖν αὐτοῖς πυρεῖα, Κόρε καὶ πᾶσα ἡ συναγωγὴ αὐτοῦ,
- Hebrew (WLC)
- זֹ֖את עֲשׂ֑וּ קְחוּ לָכֶ֣ם מַחְתּ֔וֹת קֹ֖רַח וְכָל עֲדָתֽוֹ
Haydock's commentary
Censers. It was not lawful for the Levites to offer incense: but they had prepared for themselves the ensigns of the priestly power, and Moses permits them to try their success. (Haydock)
They might have brought the censers, or broad plates, bowls, or vials, (Apocalypse v. 8,) out of Egypt, where every family offers incense to their domestic gods and sacred animals. In Sicily and Greece they were also very common, as well as at Babylon; where married people always purified themselves with the smoke of incense. (Herodotus, i. 197.)
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. …