Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Deuteronomy 5:29

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 9, page 106, footnote 4 (Image)

Chrysostom: On the Priesthood, Ascetic Treatises, Select Homilies and Letters, Homilies on the Statutes

An Exhortation to Theodore After His Fall. (HTML)

Letter I (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 288 (In-Text, Margin)

... other. “For,” we read, “I said unto her after she had done all these deeds of fornication, return unto me, and yet she returned not.” And again: from another quarter, when wishing to show the great longing which He has for our salvation, having heard how the people promised, after many transgressions, to tread the right way He said: “Who will grant unto them to have such an heart as to fear me, and to keep my commandments all their days, that it may be well with them and with their children forever?”[Deuteronomy 5:29] And Moses when reasoning with them said, “And now, O Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, and to walk in all His ways, and to love Him?” He then who is so anxious to be loved by us, and does everything ...