Numbers 15:12

Verse 11–15. Thus, and so forth—Land. In this last verse, the Sam. copy observes a more correct manner of punctuation than the Hebrew which is commonly rendered “O congregation.” Houbig.—The author of the Vulgate has preserved the sense, but not all the words of the original. The strangers here spoken of are the proselytes of justice, who kept all the law. Those of the gate, who lived in the land, uncircumcised, could only present holocausts, without libations. Leviticus 22:25. Calmet.—“The many sacrifices (of the old law) prefigured this one sacrifice” of the new. Saint Augustine de Calmet. x. 20. Christ, represented by the oil, offers himself the victim, under the forms of bread and wine. D.