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Num 12:6

How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Num 12:6 · Douay-Rheims

“He said to them: Hear my words: if there be among you a prophet of the Lord, I will appear to him in a vision, or I will speak to him in a dream.”

Scholastic c. 1100 – 1500

1274

A.D.

Bonaventure Medieval

c. A.D. 1221–1274

“The purely intellectual vision existed in the minds of the angels and of the Lawmaker. Moses was raised up to this vision more completely than any other prophet, for it is written: Should there be a prophet among you, in visions will I reveal Myself to him, in dreams will I speak to him; not so with my servant Moses! Throughout My house he bears My trust: face to face I speak to him, plainly and not in riddles. The presence of the Lord he beholds.”

Source

Modern · 1953 →

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