Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
tu n'écouteras pas les paroles de ce prophète ou de ce songeur, car c'est l'Eternel, votre Dieu, qui vous met à l'épreuve pour savoir si vous aimez l'Eternel, votre Dieu, de tout votre coeur et de toute votre âme.
KJV
Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
ay know, in the same sense as that is said to know which makes others to know. Hence it is written ( Dt. 13:3 ): "The Lord your God trieth you, that it may appear whether you love him." The flesh and the world are said to tempt as the instruments or matter of temptations; inasmuc…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
precepts forbidding unbelief: thus ( Ex. 20:3 ): "Thou shalt not have strange gods before Me," and ( Dt. 13:1-3 ) they were forbidden to hear the words of the prophet or dreamer who might wish to turn them away from their faith in God. Therefore precepts of faith should have been…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 87 (Migne)
dixerint vobis, nolite credere eis. Tentat enim vos Dominus Deus vester utrum timeatis eum, an non (Deut. XIII. 3) . Illud etiam scitote quia nec vos nec aliquid quod ad vos pertinet laedere poterit inimicus, nisi quantum permiserit [Col. 0532C] Deus; permittit autem hoc Deus, q…
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