Keep therefore and do [them]; for this [is] your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation [is] a wise and understanding people.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Vous les observerez et vous les mettrez en pratique; car ce sera là votre sagesse et votre intelligence aux yeux des peuples, qui entendront parler de toutes ces lois et qui diront: Cette grande nation est un peuple absolument sage et intelligent!
KJV
Keep therefore and do [them]; for this [is] your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation [is] a wise and understanding people.
Philo Judaeus
De Migratione Abrahami
τι ποῖον ἔθνος μέγα, ᾧ ἐστι θεὸς ἐγγίζων ὡς κύριος ὁ θεὸς ἡμῶν ἐν πᾶσιν οἷς ἂν αὐτὸν ἐπικαλεσώμεθα“ (Deut. 4,6.7) ; οὐκοῦν ὅτι καὶ πρὸς βοήθειαν δύναμις ἀρωγὸς εὐτρεπὴς ἐφεδρεύει παρὰ θεῷ καὶ αὐτὸς ὁ ἡγεμὼν ἐγγυτέρω πρόσεισιν ἐπ’ ὠφελείᾳ τῶν ἀξίων ὠφελεῖσθαι, δεδήλωται. τίνες δ’…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
it ( Is. 11:2 ). Therefore this doctrine is not the same as wisdom. On the contrary, It is written ( Dt. 4:6 ): "This is your wisdom and understanding in the sight of nations." I answer that, This doctrine is wisdom above all human wisdom; not merely in any one order, but absolut…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
r that, The highest wisdom is contained in the precepts of the Divine law: wherefore it is written ( Dt. 4:6 ): "This is your wisdom and understanding in the sight of nations." Now it belongs to wisdom to arrange all things in due manner and order. Therefore it must be evident th…
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