וַיַּ֗רְא פִּֽינְחָס֙ בֶּן־אֶלְעָזָ֔ר בֶּֽן־אַהֲרֹ֖ן הַכֹּהֵ֑ן וַיָּ֙קָם֙ מִתּ֣וֹךְ הָֽעֵדָ֔ה וַיִּקַּ֥ח רֹ֖מַח בְּיָדֽוֹ׃
Y viólo Phinees, hijo de Eleazar, hijo de Aarón el sacerdote, y levantóse de en medio de la congregación, y tomó una lanza en su mano:
The Book of Maccabees I
Thus dealt he zealously for the law of God like as Phinees did unto Zambri the son of Salom.
On Drunkenness
[73] It is this same Mind who “took the lance,” that is probed and searched the secrets of corruptible creation, which finds in food and drink the treasure-house of its happiness; who “entered,” as Moses tells us, “the furnace”—the furnace of human life, which burns so fiercely and unquenchably, fed with the exceeding multitude of our transgressions; who then received strength to “pierce” both the woman and the man—“the woman through the womb,” because she believed herself to be the cause of generation, though in reality her part is passive rather than active—“the man” as representing every thought which followed this belief—the belief which invests the natures which are but the subjects of God’s action with the dues which belong only to Him who alone is the cause of all that comes into being (Num. 25:7, 8).
On the Posterity of Cain and his Exile
[183] For the Law says that he thrust the woman through, even through the womb (Numb. 25:7 f.). Having therefore on this wise put a stop to the revolt within himself and turned clean away from his own pleasure, having thus shown his zeal for God, the First and Only One, he was honoured and crowned with the two greatest rewards, peace and priesthood; with peace, because he put an end to the intestine war of lusts in the soul; with the priesthood, because in name and in fact it is akin to peace.