Cyprian of Carthage, On the Unity of the Church 18
Kore, Dathan, and Abiron tried to claim the right to sacrifice for themselves in defiance of Moses and the priest Aaron, and they immediately paid the penalty for their attempt (Numbers 16:1-35). The earth, its bonds broken, opened into a deep chasm, and the gash of the splitting ground swallowed them alive as they stood. God's indignation did not strike only the ringleaders; it also fell on the other two hundred fifty men who had shared their fury and joined them in the same act of rebellion. Fire came out from the Lord and consumed them in swift vengeance, warning and showing that whatever the wicked attempt in order to destroy God's ordination by human will is done against God (Numbers 16:1-35). King Uzziah likewise took a censer and violently seized the sacrifice for himself contrary to God's law; when the priest Azariah resisted him, he refused to obey or yield. He was confounded by divine indignation and marked on his forehead with a disfiguring leprosy, branded on the very part of the body where those who have earned the Lord are marked, because he had offended the Lord (2 Chronicles 26:16-21). And the sons of Aaron, who put unauthorized fire on the altar, which the Lord had not commanded, were instantly struck down in the Lord's sight, avenged (Leviticus 10:1-2).
Latin
Sic Chore et Dathan et Abiron, qui sibi contra Moysen et Aaron sacerdotem sacrificandi licentiam vindicare conati sunt, poenas pro suis statim conatibus pependerunt. Terra, compagibus ruptis, in profundum sinum patuit, stantes atque viventes recedentis soli hiatus absorbuit. Nec tantum eos qui auctores fuerant Dei indignantis ira percussit, sed et caeteros ducentos quinquaginta participes ejusdem furoris et comites, qui coagulati cum iisdem simul ad audaciam fuerant, exiens a Domino ignis properata ultione consumpsit, admonens scilicet et ostendens contra Deum fieri quidquid improbi fuerint ad destruendam ordinationem Dei humana voluntate conati. Sic et Ozias rex, cum thuribulum ferens, et contra legem Dei sacrificium sibi violenter assumens, resistente sibi Azaria sacerdote, obtemperare nollet et cedere, divina indignatione confusus et leprae varietate in fronte maculatus est, ea parte corporis notatus offenso Domino ubi signantur qui Dominum promerentur. Et filii Aaron, qui imposuerunt altari ignem alienum, quem non praeceperat Dominus, in conspectu statim Domini vindicatis extincti sunt.