Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Deuteronomy 7:22
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 11, page 346, footnote 2 (Image)
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... that we ought to follow this plan in our conflicts and not to trust in our own power; as he says: “Thou shalt not fear them because the Lord thy God is in the midst of thee, a God mighty and terrible: He will consume these nations in thy sight by little and little and by degrees. Thou wilt not be able to destroy them altogether: lest perhaps the beasts of the earth should increase upon thee. But the Lord thy God shall deliver them in thy sight; and shall slay them until they be utterly destroyed.”[Deuteronomy 7:21-23]