So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Je pris alors les chefs de vos tribus, des hommes sages et connus, et je les mis à votre tête comme chefs de mille, chefs de cent, chefs de cinquante, et chefs de dix, et comme ayant autorité dans vos tribus.
KJV
So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes.
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
nd of kingdom. Moreover, seventy-two men were chosen, who were elders in virtue: for it is written ( Dt. 1:15 ): "I took out of your tribes wise and honorable, and appointed them rulers": so that there was an element of aristocracy. But it was a democratical government in so far…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 134 (Migne)
s terrenis occupantur. [Col. 0339B] Hinc est quod Moyses pro se septuaginta viros (Exod. XVIII, 25; Deut. I, 15) populo praeposuit. Illud autem sciendum, quia qui generalis populi merita transcendunt, infirmantium fratrum negotia non debent contemnere, sed super ea quos sciunt p…
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