Notes on Book of Numbers (Author Bishop Richard Challoner (ed.))
17:8 The rod of Aaron for the house of Levi, was budded, etc: This rod of Aaron which thus miraculously brought forth fruit, was a figure of the blessed Virgin conceiving and bringing forth her Son without any prejudice to her virginity.
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