Numbers
quoted 10 times by 5 works · held by the library
Most often carried — quoted as a source. The locus given for each is the passage in the quoting book; the harvest records no place inside what is quoted, and nothing here pretends to.
10 carried
2 neutralin the voice of Clement 1
quoted by
5 works-
Adversus Marcionem Tertullian 4 citations · 5 passages
Represents the act of citing Numbers for the Joshua renaming and the brazen serpent.
When the successor of Moses was being appointed, Hoshea son of Nun, was he not certainly transferred from his former name and begin to be called Jesus?
book 3 ¶ -
Letters Basil of Caesarea 1 neutral 3 citations
Narrative explicitly invoked as scriptural record.
But Balaam too, being a soothsayer and a diviner, who carried his divinations in his hand, as the Scripture says, and who had perfected for himself through the meddlesome art of augury the teaching that comes from demons, is recorded by the Scripture to be counselled by God.
letter 189 ¶ -
in the voice of Clement
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Stromata Clement of Alexandria 1 citation
Explicit reference to the book of Numbers as scriptural precedent.
The man, at any rate, who pierced through the fornicator is shown in the book of Numbers to be blessed by God.
book 3 ¶ -
The Rights of War and Peace Hugo Grotius 1 neutral 1 citation
Matches the citation of Numbers.
for proselytes called by the Hebrews, proselytes of righteousness, enjoyed equal privileges with the Israelites.
book i, chapter i. ¶ -
Adversus Praxean Tertullian 1 citation
The Numbers text is cited directly as scriptural authority.
mouth to mouth shall I speak to him in form" — that is, in truth, and not in a riddle — that is, not in an image;
adversus praxean ¶
the marks
- authority
- relied on as a source of legitimacy
- neutral
- identified or reported
- refuted
- argued against
- extended
- developed or continued
- endorsed
- agreed with
- roman
- the cited text is in the library and opens in the reader
- italic
- named by this text, not held by the library — the corpus's wanted list
- ¶
- the passage in this text that does the citing
- 7
- beside a chapter, the passages anchored there. A single citation can quote more than one passage, which is why a row carries two figures: the citations the harvest recorded, and the passages its chapters add up to.