{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/sco/num016.htm","path":"bib/cmt/sco/num016.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/sco/num016.htm","text":"The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917]\nSeek ye the priesthood also\nThe \"gainsaying of Korah\" was intrusion into the priest's office (\"no man taketh this honour unto himself,\") (Heb 5:4). It was an attempt to create a priestly order without the divine authority (Heb 5:10). The modern analogue is Nicolaitanism (Rev 2:6); (Rev 2:15) the division of an equal brotherhood (Mat 23:8) into \"clergy\" and \"laity\"; a vastly different thing from the due recognition of ministry-gifts; (Co1 12:4-31); (Eph 4:8); (Eph 4:11); (Eph 4:12) or of elders and deacons; (Ti1 3:1-13); (Tit 1:5-9).\natonement\n(See Scofield) - (Exo 29:33)","title":"The Scofield Bible Commentary: Numbers: Numbers Chapter 16","type":"page"}