Numbers 29:35Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers

Douay-RheimsHebrew (Masoretic text)

On the eighth day, which is most solemn, you shall do no servile work:
Douay-Rheims

בַּיּוֹם֙ הַשְּׁמִינִ֔י עֲצֶ֖רֶת תִּהְיֶ֣ה לָכֶ֑ם כָּל־מְלֶ֥אכֶת עֲבֹדָ֖ה לֹ֥א תַעֲשֽׂוּ׃
Hebrew (Masoretic text)

The Church Fathers on this verse

One Church Father comments on this verse

Marcus the Ascetic

4th centuryChurch Father

If someone has reached the eighth day (Num. 29:35; Lev. 23:36) and has experienced resurrection from the dead (meaning liberation from all carnal desires, worldly thoughts, and words in accordance with God), they have commenced the blessed existence of God (the law that is rightly referred to as life, and indeed is life), as they have been transformed into a divine being through deification (John 10:34).

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Passages read together with this verse.

Lev 23:36The eighth day also shall be most solemn and most holy: and you shall offer holocausts to the Lord. For it is the day of assembly and congregation. You shall do no servile work therein.
Rev 7:9After this, I saw a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations and tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and in sight of the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands.
Rev 7:17For the Lamb, which is in the midst of the throne, shall rule them and shall lead them to the fountains of the waters of life: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.
John 7:37And on the last, and great day of the festivity, Jesus stood and cried, saying: If any man thirst, let him come to me and drink.
John 7:39Now this he said of the Spirit which they should receive who believed in him: for as yet the Spirit was not given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.