Numbers 14:23

Verse 23. It. None of those who murmured ever entered the land of promise. Origen (hom. 27,) believes that the Levites behaved with fidelity, and were not comprised in the punishment. In effect, Eleazar certainly entered Chanaan. Joshua 14:1. Salmon also, who espoused Rahab, had seen the wonders of God, but had not joined with the rest; so that, when it is said (verse 2,) that all murmured, we must explain it by S. Jerom’s rule, of the greatest part; as, no doubt, many would abhor the conduct of the seditious. Calmet.—Omnia non ad totum referenda esse sed ad partem maximam. Saint Jerome ep. 146. ad Dam.)