Holy Scripture

Numbers 25:8

A church father on this verse
“If Phinehas by his zeal in slaying the evildoer appeased the wrath of God, shall not Jesus, who slew no other but "gave himself a ransom for all," take away God's wrath against humanity?”
Cyril of Jerusalem, 4th c. — Catechetical Lecture 13.2

Source: Septuagint

Original

8and went in after the Israelitish man into the chamber, and pierced them both through, both the Israelitish man, and the woman through her womb; and the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.

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6And, behold, a man of the children of Israel came and brought his brother to a Midianitish woman before Moses, and before all the congregation of the children of Israel; and they were weeping at the door of the tabernacle of witness.

7And Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, and rose out of the midst of the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand,

— Numbers 25:8 —

9And those that died in the plague were four and twenty thousand.

10And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

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