“What is indicated by the twenty-fifth year, in which the flower of young manhood blooms, except those battles against every vice? And what is meant by fifty, which contains the repose of the jubilee, except the internal peace that comes when the war of the mind is won? What do the vessels of the tabernacle mean, excep…”
Paterius, 7th c. — EXPOSITION OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT, NUMBERS 4
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25And from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the service thereof, and shall serve no more:
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23And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
24This is it that belongeth unto the Levites: from twenty and five years old and upward they shall go in to wait upon the service of the tabernacle of the congregation:
— Numbers 8:25 —
26But shall minister with their brethren in the tabernacle of the congregation, to keep the charge, and shall do no service. Thus shalt thou do unto the Levites touching their charge.