| Psalms 105:29
| And they provoked him with their inventions: and destruction was multiplied among them.
| Multiplied. All who had murmured perished, or this may relate to the 24,000, Numbers 25:9. (Calmet) --- Ezechiel 20:23. St. Paul (1 Corinthians 10:8.) speaks of those 23,000 slain by the Levites. The Hebrew which has only 3,000 must be inaccurate. Temporal chastisements were intended to prefigure those which are eternal, as the Jews knew that such rewards and punishments were to be considered (Matthew 19:16.; Berthier) as the spiritual sense of the law. (Grotius, Jur. 2:20, 39.)
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