Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Deuteronomy 32:51

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 8, page 530, footnote 5 (Image)

Augustine: Expositions on the Psalms

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CCEL Footnote 4851 (In-Text, Margin)

... of strife: so that Moses was vexed for their sakes” (ver. 32); “because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake doubtfully with his lips” (ver. 33). What is spake doubtfully? As if God, who had done so great wonders before, could not cause water to flow from a rock. For he touched the rock with his rod with doubt, and thus distinguished this miracle from the rest, in which he had not doubted. He thus offended, thus deserved to hear that he should die, without entering into the land of promise.[Deuteronomy 32:49-52] For being disturbed by the murmurs of an unbelieving people, he held not fast that confidence which he ought to have held. Nevertheless, God giveth unto him, as unto His chosen, a good testimony even after his death, so that we may see that this ...