Deuteronomy 32:6 (WEB)
Is this the way you repay the LORD, foolish and unwise people? Isn’t he your father who has bought you? He has made you and established you.
Catechism · 1
“In Israel, God is called "Father" inasmuch as he is Creator of the world.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Dt 32:6; Mal 2:10.
Fathers and councils · 9
Gregory of Nyssa
“In return for what, tell me, “do ye thus requite the Lord?” (for I will borrow the language of Moses to the Israelites); is He not good, Who when thou wast soulless dust invested thee with Godlike beauty, and raised thee up as an image of His own power endowed with soul?” — editor's note: Deut. xxxii. 6.
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Irenaeus of Lyons
“Wherefore Moses, when chiding the ingratitude of the people, said, “Ye infatuated people, and unwise, do ye thus requite the Lord?”” — editor's note: Deut. xxxii. 6.
Read the whole comment“Now the father of the human race is the Word of God, as Moses points out when he says, “Is not He thy father who hath obtained thee [by generation], and formed thee, and created thee?”” — editor's note: Deut. xxxii. 6, LXX. [Let us reflect that this effort to spiritualize this awful passage in the history of Lot is an innocent but unsuccessful attempt to…
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“Your first passage is this, ‘Is not He thy Father that bought thee? did He not make thee and create thee?’” — editor's note: Deut. xxxii. 6. LXX.
Read the whole comment“…before His sojourn among us; for ‘I begat sons,’ saith Scripture; and in the time of Noah, ‘When the sons of God saw,’ and in the Song, ‘Is not He thy Father?’” — editor's note: Is. i. 2, LXX.; Gen. vi. 2; Deut. xxxii. 6
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“But if any one wishes to learn how we call God “Father,” let him hear Moses, the excellent schoolmaster, saying, Did not this thy Father Himself buy thee, and make thee, and create thee?” — editor's note: Deut. xxxii. 6.
Read the whole comment“This people is foolish and unwise.” — editor's note: Deut. xxxii. 6.
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Justin Martyr
“Hence he cries continually, and justly, ‘They are foolish children, in whom is no faith.’” — editor's note: Deut. xxxii. 6, 20.
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Clement of Alexandria
“Is not this thy father who acquired thee?”” — editor's note: Deut. xxxii. 5, 6.
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Cross-references · 26
Cited together in Catechism §238.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.31.
Cited together in Catechism §238.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.31.
Cited together in Catechism §238.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.31.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.10.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.10.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.10.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.31.
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Cited together in Against Eunomius XI.1.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.10.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.31.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.31.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.31.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.31.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.10.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.10.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.10.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.10.
Cited together in Catechism §238.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 20.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.10.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.10.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.10.