{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">And what wonder is it if those in Christ who were entrusted\r\nwith such a duty by God, appointed those [ministers]\r\nbefore mentioned, when the blessed Moses also, “a faithful\r\nservant in all his house,”<a id=\"r184\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f184\"><sup>[184]</sup></a> noted down in the sacred books all\r\nthe injunctions which were given him, and when the other\r\nprophets also followed him, bearing witness with one consent\r\nto the ordinances which he had appointed? For, when\r\nrivalry arose concerning the priesthood, and the tribes were\r\ncontending among themselves as to which of them should be\r\nadorned with that glorious title, he commanded the twelve\r\nprinces of the tribes to bring him their rods, each one being\r\ninscribed with the name<a id=\"r185\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f185\"><sup>[185]</sup></a> of the tribe. And he took them\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_38\">38</span>and bound them [together], and sealed them with the rings\r\nof the princes of the tribes, and laid them up in the tabernacle\r\nof witness on the table of God. And having shut the\r\ndoors of the tabernacle, he sealed the keys, as he had done\r\nthe rods, and said to them, Men and brethren, the tribe whose\r\nrod shall blossom has God chosen to fulfil the office of the\r\npriesthood, and to minister unto Him. And when the morning\r\nwas come, he assembled all Israel, six hundred thousand men,\r\nand showed the seals to the princes of the tribes, and opened\r\nthe tabernacle of witness, and brought forth the rods. And\r\nthe rod of Aaron was found not only to have blossomed, but\r\nto bear fruit upon it.<a id=\"r186\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f186\"><sup>[186]</sup></a> What think ye, beloved? Did not\r\nMoses know beforehand that this would happen? Undoubtedly\r\nhe knew; but he acted thus, that there might be\r\nno sedition in Israel, and that the name of the true and only\r\nGod might be glorified; to whom be glory for ever and ever.\r\nAmen.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE FIRST EPISTLE OF CLEMENT.","THE FIRST EPISTLE OF CLEMENT TO THE CORINTHIANS.","Chap. xliii.—Moses of old stilled the contention which arose concerning the priestly dignity."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-87"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"37193595e32fea5d6aed16fbaefcd4b0fd9d4305675cd44c764f525f6da03367","edition_title":"The writings of the Apostolic Fathers","edition_translators":["Alexander Roberts","James Donaldson","Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1870,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg77576-f185","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Project Gutenberg metadata: Public domain in the USA. Historical 1870 English edition; electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"f185","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f185\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r185\">185</a>. </span>Literally, “every tribe being written according to its name.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f185","text_sha256":"b47da408d44937921cebcf9a0a80ae69f1a48ed16b204c4b4ee4962dbad091f8","verified":false,"work_id":null}