Deuteronomy 17:15 (WEB)
you shall surely set him whom the LORD your God chooses as king over yourselves. You shall set as king over you one from among your brothers. You may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.
Fathers and councils · 2
Catena Aurea on Matthew
- JeromeCatena Aurea on Matthew
“By nation, as all Jews are called brethren, as in Deuteronomy, “Thou shalt not set over thee a foreigner who is not thy brother.” [Deut 17:15] They are called brethren by kindred who are of one family, as in Genesis, “Abraham said unto Lot, Let there not be strife between thee and we, for…” — the author cites it
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Jerome
“And in the same book, “Thou shalt in anywise set him king over thee, whom the Lord thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee; thou mayest not put a foreigner over thee, which is not thy brother.”” — editor's note: Deut. xvii. 15.
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Cross-references · 8
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 12:46–50 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 12:46–50 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 12:46–50 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 12:46–50 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 12:46–50 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 12:46–50 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 12:46–50 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 12:46–50 (Catena Aurea).