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O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!

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Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Oh! s'ils avaient toujours ce même coeur pour me craindre et pour observer tous mes commandements, afin qu'ils fussent heureux à jamais, eux et leurs enfants!

KJV

O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!

Patristic reading

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  • Thomas Aquinas

    Summa Theologica

    3: Even the movement of fear proceeds from God's act in turning the heart; wherefore it is written ( Dt. 5:29 ): "Who shall give them to have such a mind, to fear Me?" And so the fact that penance results from fear does not hinder its resulting from the act of God in turning the…
  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 178 (Migne)

    et custodiant universa mandata mea, in omni tempore ut bene sit eis, et filiis eorum in sempiternum (Deut. V, 29) . Evae aperte Dominus profitetur, ex obedientia legum sempiternam remunerationem, non quae finem habet. Moyses etiam post illam, quam supra meministi [Col. 1627A] re…

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