“Once the people fell down in the desert and died. Aaron their chief priest came and "stood in the midst of those who died and of those who lived," so that the devastation of death might not advance even further among the rest. And then came the true high priest, my Lord, and he came into the midst between those dying…”
Origen of Alexandria, 3th c. — HOMILIES ON JOSHUA 26:3
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6Remembering that prophecy of Amos, as he said, Your feasts shall be turned into mourning, and all your mirth into lamentation.
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4Then before I had tasted of any meat, I started up, and took him up into a room until the going down of the sun.
5Then I returned, and washed myself, and ate my meat in heaviness,
— Tobit 2:6 —
7Therefore I wept: and after the going down of the sun I went and made a grave, and buried him.
8But my neighbours mocked me, and said, This man is not yet afraid to be put to death for this matter: who fled away; and yet, lo, he burieth the dead again.