“It was the ancients who did this, of course, but because what was written is said to be "written for our sake, to whom the end of the ages has arrived," not on their account, we should watch lest these sayings are seen to be true of more of us than of them. Do you want to see that such things are applied to us through…”
Origen of Alexandria, 3th c. — HOMILIES ON JUDGES 2.3
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11And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim:
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9And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in the mount of Ephraim, on the north side of the hill Gaash.
10And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the LORD, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.
— Judges 2:11 —
12And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger.
13And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.