For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so [to do].
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Car ces nations que tu chasseras écoutent les astrologues et les devins; mais à toi, l'Eternel, ton Dieu, ne le permet pas.
KJV
For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so [to do].
Eusebius of Caesarea
Generalis elementaria introductio (= Eclogae propheticae)
νόμος διαμαρτύρεται, ὅτι δὴ τὰ ἔθνη ὧν μεταξὺ πολιτεύσονται κληδόνων καὶ μαντειῶν ἀκούσονται· σοὶ δὲ,Deut. 18, 14. φησὶν, οὐχ οὕτως ἔδωκε Κύριος ὁ Θεός σου· καὶ ἔτι γε εἴργων αὐτοὺς ὁ θεῖος λόγος ἔκ τε οἰωνιστικῆς καὶ πάσης τῆς διὰ δαιμόνων περιέργου μαντείας ἐπιφέρει, λέγων, προ…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
consistent for these things to be forbidden to priests ( Lev. 21 ). On the contrary, It is written ( Dt. 18:14 ): "But thou art otherwise instructed by the Lord thy God": from which words we may gather that these observances were instituted by God to be a special prerogative of t…
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