Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
Out of them? For, being about to take a cursory view of what befell the people (of Israel) he begins with saying: "Now these things happened as examples for us.".
? For, to borrow the apostle's phrase, these were "figures of ourselves; "
