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The Ark Passes Over the Jordan, James Tissot

Deuteronomy 32:21

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Deuteronomy 32:21 (WEB)

They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

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Origen

  • “…provoked Me to anger with their idols: and I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.”” — editor's note: Cf. Deut. xxxii. 21.

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  • “…provoked Me to anger with their idols: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.”” — editor's note: Cf. Deut. xxxii. 21.

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  • “…thus the words run: “They have moved Me to anger with their images, and I will stir them up to jealousy; I will arouse them to anger against a foolish nation.”” — editor's note: Deut. xxxii. 21.

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  • ““For they,” He says, “moved Me to jealousy with that which is not God, they have provoked Me to anger with their idols; and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people, and will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.”” — editor's note: Deut. xxxii. 21.

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John Cassian

Justin Martyr

Tertullian

  • “For in the first part of the law, too, “Thou shalt not,” saith He, “use the name of the Lord thy God in a vain thing,” that is, in an idol.” — editor's note: Because Scripture calls idols “vanities” and “vain things.” See 2 Kings xvii. 15, Ps. xxiv. 4, Isa. lix. 4, Deut. xxxii. 21, etc.

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  • “They have moved me to jealousy by that which is no god, and they have provoked me to anger with their idols; and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people: I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation”—even with us, whose hope the Jews still entertain.” — editor's note: Deut. xxxii. 20, 21.

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Hilary of Poitiers

  • “Compare with these words that holy and Divine Song of Deuteronomy, in which God, in His wrath against them that are no Gods, moves the unbelievers to jealousy against those that are no people and a foolish nation.” — editor's note: Deut. xxxii. 21.

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Gregory of Nazianzus

Aphrahat

Clement of Alexandria

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