Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Deuteronomy 30:2

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 5, page 151, footnote 6 (Image)

Augustine: Anti-Pelagian Writings

A Treatise on Nature and Grace. (HTML)

God Enjoins No Impossibility, Because All Things are Possible and Easy to Love. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1352 (In-Text, Margin)

... of what is said to Israel in Deuteronomy, if understood in a godly, sacred, and spiritual sense, since the apostle, after quoting the passage, “The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth and in thy heart” (and, as the verse also has it, in thine hands, for in man’s heart are his spiritual hands), adds in explanation, “This is the word of faith which we preach.” No man, therefore, who “returns to the Lord his God,” as he is there commanded, “with all his heart and with all his soul,”[Deuteronomy 30:2] will find God’s commandment “grievous.” How, indeed, can it be grievous, when it is the precept of love? Either, therefore, a man has not love, and then it is grievous; or he has love, and then it is not grievous. But he possesses love if he does ...