Question VIII. (marg.) Why did Joshua not ask that the rest [the seventy] also be forbidden to prophesy?

Of the causes which (q. 4) moved Joshua to ask that Eldad and Medad be forbidden, one alone could fit [in the case of] the other prophets — namely, that, with more [men] flowering into that eminent glory of prophecy, Moses’s excellence seemed to wither, be obscured, and be made common. But that cause, in respect of the rest of them, could not so purge and goad Joshua’s mind as [it did] in view of those two. Because those [seventy] had obeyed his [Moses’s] command when called; they had presented themselves at the tabernacle; they had greatly prized Moses’s prayers and blessing; they had ascribed to him, [and] to God next, whatever of excellent gift they now had — because they perceived and professed that they received it from his spirit. Besides, there was a clear divine testimony and will concerning these, which — even against the sense of his own mind — Joshua most gladly embraced and revered. And lastly it was added that, even if the glory which seemed gathered in Moses alone was now scattered among more, yet not among so many as when those two were being added — so that he could even fear that yet more supernumeraries might be added.