Where the Fathers quote Numbers 13
18 citations across the Patrologia Graeca — from the printed citations of the English pass; every reference opens the page with its facsimile one tap away. · trace across the Tradition ›
3Num 13:3
Epiphanius of Salamis c. 340–404PG 43:345…sons of israel as it is written in the book of numbers by the commandment of the lord in the first arrangement judah issachar zabulon in the second reuben simeon gad in the third ephraim b…
John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 64:585…you were confident in your purity all fear is in vain vers by the commandment of the lord they shall perish and by the spirit of his wrath they shall be destroyed and the phrase by…
Theodoret of Cyrrhus c. 386–458PG 80:849…and gad the seer of the king and nathan the prophet since by the commandment of the lord was the precept by the hand of his prophets this refutes the folly of the jews who do…
Procopius of Gaza c. 465–528PG 87:827…when he has left the tents of this life, we may be enrolled into the heavenly city. “Send men to explore the land which I have given you,” etc. [Num. XIII, 3.] God orders the explorers to be sent by Moses, so that He…
16Num 13:16
Eusebius of Caesarea c. 260–339PG 22:325…his own successor to rename him jesus for it is written these are the names of the men whom moses sent to spy out the land and moses renamed nauses the son of nave jesus and…
John of Damascus c. 675–749PG 95:1225…child and suckled it exod ii joshua sent two men from satim to spy out the land and jericho and they entered into the house of a harlot woman whose name was raab and lodged there…
23Num 13:23
Cyril of Alexandria d. 444PG 68:373…of grapes upon it and they carried it on poles and also of the pomegranates and of the figs and they called that place the valley of the grape cluster because of the cluster which the…
Paschal Chronicle c. 630PG 92:71…and they brought a great cluster of grapes on a staff and of the pomegranates and of the figs for then as they say our eternal god the creator and maker of all things established all…
24Num 13:24
Origen c. 185–c. 253PG 13:1949…ran pearls, 450 not. How they are born, 450. Where they may be fed, 451 not. The Valley of the Clusters (Botri), from which that exceptional grape mentioned in Num. xiii, 24 was brought by the scouts, 776 not. The…
Peter of Alexandria c. 250-311PG 18:513B…s of the grapes, when he sent those who were to spy out the land, and they brought back the great cluster of grapes on poles, along with pomegranates and figs (Num. 13:24). For then, as they say, the Creator an…
Gregory of Nyssa c. 335–c. 395PG 44:1379…if this were to be understood as concerning our Lord Jesus Christ, and not rather of Jesus Nave, that is Josue. The history of the spies is read in Numbers XIII, 24, concerning the blood of the grape which is in the Latin Vu…
26Num 13:26
Cyril of Alexandria d. 444PG 68:325…region of the madianites they brought the captives to eleazar the priest and to all the congregation of the children of israel for the glorious deeds of holy men are as it were sacred offerings to…
27Num 13:27
Cyril of Alexandria d. 444PG 68:373…the whole congregation and they showed them the fruit of the land and they told him and said we came to the land into which you sent us a land flowing with milk and honey and…
29Num 13:29
Eusebius of Caesarea c. 260–339PG 19:615…furthermore the canaanite first took possession of sidon from whom the sidonians and the hittites and the jebusites and the amorites and the gergesites and the levites and the arvadites whence also the tripolitans and the…
Cyril of Alexandria d. 444PG 72:87…the white went forth after them and the dappled went forth into the land of the south and the spotted went forth and they were concerned to go and to walk round the earth and he…
34Num 13:34
Irenaeus of Lyon c. 130–c. 202PG 7:1473D…de in the Chaldean Paraphrase, commonly ascribed to Jonathan on Gen. vi, 5 (although it is there corruptly called "Uziel"), and also in Rabbi Solomon Jarchi on Num. xiii, 34, translated into Latin in these words:…
Origen c. 185–c. 253PG 15:45A…Gen. xxv, 8, where [Hebrew] is read, "to his people," but another ancient interpreter translated it, "to his transients," who seems to have read [Hebrew]. And Num. xiii, 34, [Hebrew] Symmachus translated, "porten…
Isaac of Nineveh c. 613-c. 700PG 86:835B…in the way, and a murderer in the streets" (Prov. xxvi, 13); and alongside them those saying: "We saw the sons of giants, and we were as locusts before them" (Num. xiii, 34). These are they who, in their time on…