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Num 33:15

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Num 33:15 · Douay-Rheims

“And departing from Raphidim, they camped in the desert of Sinai.”

Patristic before A.D. 750

254

A.D.

Origen Patristic

c. A.D. 184–253

“Sina itself is a place in the wilderness that was earlier mentioned as Sin. But this place is, rather, the name of the mountain that is in that wilderness; it is called Sina after the name of the wilderness. Therefore, after the soul has been made praiseworthy in judgment and begins to have a right judgment, then it is given the law by God, since it has begun to be capable of receiving divine mysteries and heavenly visions.”

Source

Modern · 1953 →

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