Deuteronomy 29 in the early church

27 passages quote, allude to, or echo Deuteronomy 29, grouped by verse; passages on the same verse are in date order. Verse text from the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). References use the Protestant English Bible's numbering, with a writer's own numbering in brackets where it differs.

Verses: 4 · 5 · 19 · 23 · 29

Deuteronomy 29:4

Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Deut 29:4	Commentary on Romans 8.8 · Origen	allusion, low confidence	ca. 244–246 (Rufinus's translation ca. 405–406)
Deut 29:4	Against Eunomius 2.27 · Basil of Caesarea	echo, medium confidence	ca. 364
Deut 29:4	Commentary on Romans 11:11 · Ambrosiaster	quotation, medium confidence	ca. 366–384
Deut 29:4	Letter 217.26 · Augustine of Hippo	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 386–430
Deut 29:4	Against Faustus the Manichaean 13.11 · Augustine of Hippo	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 398–400
Deut 29:4	Tractates on the Gospel of John 53.5 · Augustine of Hippo	quotation, medium confidence	ca. 406–420

Deuteronomy 29:5

For forty years I led you in the wilderness, yet your clothes and sandals did not wear out.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Deut 29:5	Dialogue with Trypho 131.6 · Justin Martyr	allusion, high confidence	ca. 155–160
Deut 29:5	Against Marcion 4.24 · Tertullian	allusion, high confidence	207/208 (third edition, completed later)
Deut 29:5	On the Resurrection of the Flesh 58 · Tertullian	allusion, high confidence	ca. 208–212
Deut 29:5	Res. 2.20 · Methodius of Olympus	allusion, high confidence	late 3rd cent. (disputed)
Deut 29:5	Ancoratus 62.5 · Epiphanius of Salamis	allusion, high confidence	374
Deut 29:5	On the Christian Faith 2.2 · Ambrose	allusion, high confidence	ca. 378–380
Deut 29:5	Letter 205.2 · Augustine of Hippo	allusion, high confidence	ca. 386–430
Deut 29:5	Against Jovinianus 2.18 · Jerome	allusion, high confidence	393
Deut 29:5	Deuteronomy, lines 27–52 · Cyprianus Gallus	allusion, high confidence	early 5th cent.
Deut 29:5	On the Good of Marriage 2 · Augustine of Hippo	allusion, medium confidence	401
Deut 29:5	Literal Commentary on Genesis 9.3 · Augustine of Hippo	allusion, high confidence	ca. 401–415
Deut 29:5	On the Merits and Forgiveness of Sins 1.3 · Augustine of Hippo	allusion, high confidence	411–412
Deut 29:5	In Praise of the Desert 14 · Eucherius of Lyon	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 427-428
Deut 29:5	On the Governance of God 1.43 · Salvian of Marseilles	allusion, high confidence	ca. 439-451

Deuteronomy 29:19

because when such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself, saying, ‘I will have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my own heart.’ This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Deut 29:19	Didascalia 2.23 (Latin) · Anonymous	quotation, medium confidence	first half of the third century
Deut 29:19	Apostolic Constitutions 2.23.2 · Anonymous	quotation, high confidence	ca. 380

Deuteronomy 29:23

All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Deut 29:23	Letter 46.7 · Jerome	allusion, high confidence	ca. 370–419
Deut 29:23	Against Jovinianus 2.24 · Jerome	allusion, medium confidence	393

Deuteronomy 29:29

The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, so that we may follow all the words of this law.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Deut 29:29	Commentary on Romans 4.1 · Origen	quotation, high confidence	ca. 244–246 (Rufinus's translation ca. 405–406)
Deut 29:29	Letter 78.5 · Augustine of Hippo	quotation, medium confidence	ca. 386–430
Deut 29:29	Book 1, chapter 21 · Anonymous	echo, low confidence	ca. 440-450