Deuteronomy 1:31 (WEB)
and in the wilderness where you have seen how that the LORD your God carried you, as a man carries his son, in all the way that you went, until you came to this place.”
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- Origen, Against Celsus IV.71Book IV
“And, generally, with regard to such a style of speaking about God, we find in the book of Deuteronomy the following: “The Lord thy God bare with your manners, as a man would bear with the manners of his son.”” — editor's note: Cf. Deut. i. 31. Origen appears to have read, not ἐτροφόρησεν, the common reading (Heb. אשָֹנָ), but ἐτροποφόρησεν, the reading of the Codex Alex.
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