Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou [art] a stiffnecked people.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Sache donc que ce n'est point à cause de ta justice que l'Eternel, ton Dieu, te donne ce bon pays pour que tu le possèdes; car tu es un peuple au cou roide.
KJV
Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou [art] a stiffnecked people.
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
f your idols, the star of your god, which you made to yourselves." Moreover it is stated expressly ( Dt. 9:6 ): "Know therefore that the Lord thy God giveth thee not this excellent land in possession for thy justices, for thou art a very stiff-necked people": but the real reason…
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 96 (Migne)
ulcro sepeliatur. Dicitur enim: Maledictus omnis homo qui non sepelitur in sepulcro patrum suorum (Deut. IX, 6) . CAP. III.--- De eo quod debet homo sepeliri in ecclesia cui monachus est. Synodus statuit: Si quis in ecclesia conjunctus fuerit, in ea sepelietur. Synodus H…
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