Deuteronomy 16:21 — text, Greek, lexicon

Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Tu ne fixeras aucune idole de bois à côté de l'autel que tu élèveras à l'Eternel, ton Dieu.

KJV

Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.

Philo Judaeus
Legum Allegoriarum Libri I-III
„οὐ φυτεύσεις σεαυτῷ ἄλσος, πᾶν ξύλον παρὰ τὸ θυσιαστήριον κυρίου τοῦ θεοῦ σου οὐ ποιήσεις σεαυτῷ“ (Deuter. 16,21). τί οὖν λεκτέον; ὅτι πρέπει τῷ θεῷ φυτεύειν καὶ οἰκοδομεῖν ἐν ψυχῇ τὰς ἀρετάς. φίλαυτος δὲ καὶ ἄθεος ὁ νοῦς οἰόμενος ἴσος εἶναι θεῷ καὶ ποιεῖν δοκῶν ἐν τῷ πάσχειν ἐξ…
Origen
In Jeremiam (Homiliae 1-11)
αἰνισσόμενος ἡμᾶς τοὺς λιθίνην ἔχοντας τὴν καρ- 1 Luk. 18, 11. 12. — 4 Vgl. Jerem. 31, 29 Luc. — 16 Deut. 16, 21. — 17 Vgl. Deut. 12, 3? — 27 Joh. 8, 39. — 28 Luk. 3, 8. — 31 ff. Vgl. in Job. Tom. 6, 22 (Br I, 138, ff.): καὶ τοὺς διὰ τὴν λιθίνην καρδίαν ἀπίστους λίθους ὀνομαζομέν…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
that there was something holy and divine in such things. For this reason, too, the Lord commanded ( Dt. 16:21 ): "Thou shalt plant no grove, nor any tree near the altar of the Lord thy God": since idolaters were wont to offer sacrifices beneath trees, on account of the pleasantne…

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