cui patri quondam, videlicet vos habenti, vix domus Aaron pontificis antiqui merito compararetur: quem licet primum in medio plebis heremitidis sanctificationis oleo legiferi fratris dextra perfuderit, filios eius in similis officii munia vocans, tamen ipsius super Ithamare et Eleazaro felicitatem Nadab et Abiu fulminibus afflati decoloravere; quorum quamlibet interemptorum credamus absolvendas animas, punitas tamen scimus esse personas.
With your father, having two such sons as you, the family of the ancient pontiff Aaron would scarcely have borne comparison; for although Aaron was anointed with the oil of consecration by the hand of his brother the law-giver amid the people in the wilderness, and though the same hand summoned his sons to the duties of a like office, yet the bliss that Ithamar and Eleazar brought him was marred by the fate of Nadab and Abihu who were scorched by shafts of lightning, for, however convinced we are that after death their souls would find absolution, we know that their persons were punished.
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