Deuteronomy 30:15 (WEB)
Behold, I have set before you today life and prosperity, and death and evil.
Catechism · 1
“The way of Christ "leads to life"; a contrary way "leads to destruction."” — Catechism footnote: Mt 7:13; cf. Deut 30: 15-20.
Fathers and councils · 7
Origen
- Origen, De Principiis III.1Book III
“Moses also speaks as follows: “I have placed before thy face the way of life and the way of death: choose what is good, and walk in it.”” — editor's note: Deut. xxx. 15.
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“Moses also: “I have placed before thy face the way of life, and the way of death: choose what is good, and walk in it.”” — editor's note: Cf. Deut. xxx. 15, 16, cf. 19.
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Clement of Alexandria
““Behold,” He says, “I have set before your face death and life.”” — editor's note: Deut. xxx. 15.
Read the whole comment“For this is life, and the length of thy days, to love the Lord thy God.”” — editor's note: Deut. xxx. 15, 16, etc.
Read the whole comment“Further, the Barbarian philosophy recognises good as alone excellent, and virtue as sufficient for happiness, when it says, “Behold, I have set before your eyes good and evil, life and death, that ye may choose life.”” — editor's note: Deut. xxx. 15, 19, 20.
Read the whole comment““For, behold,” it is said, “I have set before your face death and life, that ye may choose life.”” — editor's note: Deut. xxx. 15, 19.
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Tertullian
““Behold,” saith He, “I have set before thee good and evil.”” — editor's note: See Deut. xxx. 1, 15, 19, and xi. 26. See, too, de Ex. Cast., c. ii.
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Cross-references · 10
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.11.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.11.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.11.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.11.
Cited together in Catechism §1696.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.11.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.11.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.11.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.11.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.11.
