1 Audi, Israël: tu transgredieris hodie Jordanem, ut possideas nationes maximas et fortiores te, civitates ingentes, et ad cælum usque muratas, 2 populum magnum atque sublimem, filios Enacim, quos ipse vidisti et audisti, quibus nullus potest ex adverso resistere. 3 Scies ergo hodie quod Dominus Deus tuus ipse transibit ante te, ignis devorans atque consumens, qui conterat eos, et deleat atque disperdat ante faciem tuam velociter, sicut locutus est tibi: 4 ne dicas in corde tuo, cum deleverit eos Dominus Deus tuus in conspectu tuo: Propter justitiam meam introduxit me Dominus ut terram hanc possiderem, cum propter impietates suas istæ deletæ sint nationes. 5 Neque enim propter justitias tuas, et æquitatem cordis tui ingredieris, ut possideas terras earum: sed quia illæ egerunt impie, introëunte te deletæ sunt: et ut compleret verbum suum Dominus, quod sub juramento pollicitus est patribus tuis, Abraham, Isaac, et Jacob. 6 Scito ergo quod non propter justitias tuas Dominus Deus tuus dederit tibi terram hanc optimam in possessionem, cum durissimæ cervicis sis populus. 7 Memento, et ne obliviscaris, quomodo ad iracundiam provocaveris Dominum Deum tuum in solitudine. Ex eo die, quo egressus es ex Ægypto usque ad locum istum, semper adversum Dominum contendisti. 8 Nam et in Horeb provocasti eum, et iratus delere te voluit, 9 quando ascendi in montem, ut acciperem tabulas lapideas, tabulas pacti quod pepigit vobiscum Dominus: et perseveravi in monte quadraginta diebus ac noctibus, panem non comedens, et aquam non bibens. 10 Deditque mihi Dominus duas tabulas lapideas scriptas digito Dei, et continentes omnia verba quæ vobis locutus est in monte de medio ignis, quando concio populi congregata est. 11 Cumque transissent quadraginta dies, et totidem noctes, dedit mihi Dominus duas tabulas lapideas, tabulas fœderis, 12 dixitque mihi: Surge, et descende hinc cito: quia populus tuus, quem eduxisti de Ægypto, deseruerunt velociter viam, quam demonstrasti eis, feceruntque sibi conflatile. 13 Rursumque ait Dominus ad me: Cerno quod populus iste duræ cervicis sit: 14 dimitte me ut conteram eum, et deleam nomen ejus de sub cælo, et constituam te super gentem, quæ hac major et fortior sit. 15 Cumque de monte ardente descenderem, et duas tabulas fœderis utraque tenerem manu, 16 vidissemque vos peccasse Domino Deo vestro, et fecisse vobis vitulum conflatilem, ac deseruisse velociter viam ejus, quam vobis ostenderat: 17 projeci tabulas de manibus meis, confregique eas in conspectu vestro. 18 Et procidi ante Dominum sicut prius, quadraginta diebus et noctibus panem non comedens, et aquam non bibens, propter omnia peccata vestra quæ gessistis contra Dominum, et eum ad iracundiam provocastis: 19 timui enim indignationem et iram illius, qua adversum vos concitatus, delere vos voluit. Et exaudivit me Dominus etiam hac vice. 20 Adversum Aaron quoque vehementer iratus, voluit eum conterere, et pro illo similiter deprecatus sum. 21 Peccatum autem vestrum quod feceratis, id est, vitulum, arripiens, igne combussi, et in frusta comminuens, omninoque in pulverem redigens, projeci in torrentem, qui de monte descendit. 22 In incendio quoque, et in tentatione, et in Sepulchris concupiscentiæ provocastis Dominum: 23 et quando misit vos de Cadesbarne, dicens: Ascendite, et possidete terram, quam dedi vobis, et contempsistis imperium Domini Dei vestri, et non credidistis ei, neque vocem ejus audire voluistis: 24 sed semper fuistis rebelles a die qua nosse vos cœpi. 25 Et jacui coram Domino quadraginta diebus ac noctibus, quibus eum suppliciter deprecabar, ne deleret vos ut fuerat comminatus: 26 et orans dixi: Domine Deus, ne disperdas populum tuum, et hæreditatem tuam, quam redemisti in magnitudine tua, quos eduxisti de Ægypto in manu forti. 27 Recordare servorum tuorum Abraham, Isaac, et Jacob: ne aspicias duritiam populi hujus, et impietatem atque peccatum: 28 ne forte dicant habitatores terræ, de qua eduxisti nos: Non poterat Dominus introducere eos in terram, quam pollicitus est eis, et oderat illos: idcirco eduxit, ut interficeret eos in solitudine: 29 qui sunt populus tuus et hæreditas tua, quos eduxisti in fortitudine tua magna, et in brachio tuo extento.
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Anak
The ancestor of the Anakim, the tall people of Canaan whom the spies feared; Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmai at Hebron were his descendants.
Cited in the guide: Numbers 13:22; Numbers 13:28; Deuteronomy 9:2
Moses
Drawn from the Nile, he led Israel out of Egypt and received God's Law.
Cited in the guide: Exodus 2–Deuteronomy 34
Cross references (28)
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- 1 Deuteronomy 11:31; Deuteronomy 4:38; Deuteronomy 1:28; Deuteronomy 11:23; Joshua 1:11
- 2 Numbers 13:22; Deuteronomy 2:21; Nahum 1:6; Deuteronomy 2:11–12; Daniel 11:16
- 3 Deuteronomy 4:24; Romans 8:31; Hebrews 12:29; Deuteronomy 20:4; Deuteronomy 7:23–24
- 4 Deuteronomy 8:17; 2 Timothy 1:9; Deuteronomy 9:5; Deuteronomy 18:9–14; Leviticus 18:24–30
- 5 Titus 3:5; Genesis 17:8; Genesis 26:4; Genesis 15:7; Genesis 13:15
- 6 Deuteronomy 10:16; Deuteronomy 9:13; Exodus 32:9; Acts 7:51; Deuteronomy 31:27
- 7 Exodus 14:11; Exodus 16:2; Numbers 21:5; Numbers 25:2; Numbers 11:4
- 8 Psalm 106:19–22; Exodus 32:16; Exodus 32:7–10
- 9 Exodus 34:28; Exodus 24:18; 1 Kings 19:8; Exodus 24:15; Exodus 24:12
- 10 Exodus 31:18; Hebrews 8:10; Deuteronomy 10:4; Deuteronomy 18:16; Deuteronomy 4:10–15
- 11 Deuteronomy 9:9; Hebrews 8:6–10; Numbers 10:33; Hebrews 9:4
- 12 Exodus 32:7–8; Judges 2:17; Deuteronomy 31:29; Galatians 1:6; Hosea 6:4
- 13 Deuteronomy 9:6; Deuteronomy 10:16; 2 Kings 17:14; Deuteronomy 31:27; Exodus 32:9–10
- 14 Deuteronomy 29:20; Exodus 32:10–13; Psalm 9:5; Revelation 3:5; Numbers 14:11–12
- 15 Exodus 19:18; Deuteronomy 5:23; Deuteronomy 4:11; Exodus 32:14–35; Exodus 9:23
- 16 Exodus 32:19; Acts 7:40–41
- 18 Exodus 34:28; Deuteronomy 9:9; Psalm 106:23; 2 Samuel 12:16; Exodus 32:10–14
- 19 Exodus 32:14; James 5:16–17; Deuteronomy 10:10; Exodus 32:10–11; Psalm 99:6
- 20 Exodus 32:21; Exodus 32:35; Hebrews 7:26–28; Exodus 32:2–5
- 21 Exodus 32:20; Isaiah 31:7; Isaiah 30:22; Isaiah 2:18–21; Hosea 8:11
- 22 Numbers 11:34; Exodus 17:7; Numbers 11:1–5
- 23 Psalm 106:24–25; Hebrews 4:2; Isaiah 63:10; Psalm 78:22; Hebrews 3:18–19
- 24 Deuteronomy 31:27; Acts 7:51; Deuteronomy 9:6–7
- 25 Deuteronomy 9:18; Deuteronomy 9:16
- 26 Exodus 32:11–13; Titus 2:14; Jeremiah 14:21; Psalm 107:2; Exodus 15:13
- 27 Jeremiah 14:21; Micah 7:18–19; Isaiah 43:24–25; Exodus 3:6; Proverbs 21:12
- 28 Numbers 14:16; Exodus 32:12
- 29 Nehemiah 1:10; 1 Kings 8:51; Deuteronomy 4:34; Deuteronomy 9:26; Psalm 95:7
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They have speedily departed from the way in which I commanded them to walk, and have made to themselves molten images." And the Lord said unto him, "I have spoken to thee once and again, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiff-necked people: let Me destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven; …
For the number ten, by which the perfection of blessedness is signified, multiplied four times, because of the fourfold divisions of the seasons, and the fourfold divisions of the world, will make the number forty. Wherefore Moses and Elias, and the Mediator Himself, our Lord Jesus Christ, fasted forty days, because in the time of this life, continence from the …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 6 (1888)
For it is Moses that says: And the anger of the Lord came upon Aaron: and I prayed for him, saith he, and God forgave him.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
For we have absolute certainty that the Decalogue of the law, that is, those ten well-known precepts, were first written by the finger of God on two tables of stone. But the law, when it is not aided by grace, maketh transgressors, and is only in the letter, on account of which the apostle specially declared, "The letter killeth, but …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 7 (1888)