Deuteronomy 8:12 (WEB)
lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built fine houses and lived in them;
Fathers and councils · 5
Jerome
“Hence also it is enjoined in the same Book of Deuteronomy: “Beware, lest when thou hast eaten and drunk, and hast built goodly houses, and when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and gold is multiplied, then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the Lord thy God.”” — editor's note: Deut. viii. 12–14.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences I–X V.15Conference V
“…not the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage; and was thy leader in the great and terrible wilderness.”” — editor's note: Deut. viii. 12–15.
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Tertullian
“In short, in the self-same Deuteronomy, when bidding precaution to be taken against the self-same cause, He says: “Lest, when thou shalt have eaten, and drunken, and built excellent houses, thy sheep and oxen being multiplied, and (thy) silver and gold, thy heart be elated, and thou be forgetful of the Lord thy God.”” — editor's note: See Deut. viii. 12–14.
Read the whole comment“Accordingly, in Deuteronomy, Moses says: “Lest, when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, as well as thy silver and thy gold, thine heart be then lifted up, and thou forget the Lord thy God.”” — editor's note: Deut. viii. 12–14.
Read the whole comment“Like this will be found the admonition of Moses,—so that He who delivers from “the snare” of that day is none other than He who so long before addressed to men the same admonition.” — editor's note: Comp. Deut. viii. 12–14.
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Cross-references · 5
Cited together in Conferences I–X V.15.
Cited together in Conferences I–X V.15.
Cited together in Conferences I–X V.15.
Cited together in Conferences I–X V.15.
Cited together in Conferences I–X V.15.