Anf-01 ix.viii.xxxii Pg 5
Num. xii. 1, etc.
First, because the woman was the more culpable, since both nature and the law place the woman in a subordinate condition to the man. Or perhaps it was that Aaron was to a certain degree excusable, in consideration of his being the elder [brother], and adorned with the dignity of high priest. Then again, inasmuch as the leper was accounted by the law unclean, while at the same time the origin and foundation of the priesthood lay in Aaron, [the Lord] did not award a similar punishment to him, lest this stigma should attach itself to the entire [sacerdotal] race; but by means of his sister’s [example] He awoke his fears, and taught him the same lesson. For Miriam’s punishment affected him to such an extent, that no sooner did she experience it, than he entreated [Moses], who had been injured, that he would by his intercession do away with the affliction. And he did not neglect to do so, but at once poured forth his supplication. Upon this the Lord, who loves mankind, made him understand how He had not chastened her as a judge, but as a father; for He said, “If her father had spit in her face, should she not be ashamed? Let her be shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her come in again.”4852 4852
Anf-01 ii.ii.iv Pg 6
Num. xii. 14, 15. [In our copies of the Septuagint this is not affirmed of Aaron.]
Envy brought down Dathan and Abiram alive to Hades, through the sedition which they excited against God’s servant Moses.23 23
Anf-02 vi.iii.ii.ii Pg 5.2
Anf-03 vi.vii.v Pg 28
See Num. xx. 1–6. But Tertullian has apparently confused this with Ex. xv. 22, which seems to be the only place where “a three-days’ thirst” is mentioned.
for this also is laid to their charge by the Lord as impatience. And—not to rove through individual cases—there was no instance in which it was not by failing in duty through impatience that they perished. How, moreover, did they lay hands on the prophets, except through impatience of hearing them? on the Lord moreover Himself, through impatience likewise of seeing Him? But had they entered the path of patience, they would have been set free.9074 9074 Free, i.e. from the bondage of impatience and of sin.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 2
VERSE (4) - Ex 15:20 Nu 12:1-15; 20:1; 26:59 Mic 6:4
