Deuteronomy 30 in the early church

111 passages quote, allude to, or echo Deuteronomy 30, 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.

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Deuteronomy 30:2

and when you and your children return to the LORD your God and obey His voice with all your heart and all your soul according to everything I am giving you today,
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Deut 30:2	Liber Orsiesii 33 · Orsiesius	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 380-390

Deuteronomy 30:4

Even if you have been banished to the farthest horizon, He will gather you and return you from there.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Deut 30:4	Explanation of Twelve Psalms 43.40.1 · Ambrose	quotation, high confidence	ca. 387-397

Deuteronomy 30:6

The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love Him with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Deut 30:6	The Instructor 1.10.93 · Clement of Alexandria	quotation, high confidence	ca. 190–200
Deut 30:6	To Quirinus 1.8 · Cyprian of Carthage	quotation, high confidence	ca. 248–250 (book 3 perhaps later)
Deut 30:6	Divine Institutes 4.17.9 · Lactantius	quotation, high confidence	ca. 303–311
Deut 30:6	Tractates 1.13.6 · Zeno of Verona	quotation, high confidence	ca. 362-380
Deut 30:6	Tractates 1.13.7 · Zeno of Verona	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 362-380
Deut 30:6	Liber Orsiesii 33 · Orsiesius	quotation, high confidence	ca. 380-390
Deut 30:6	Altercatio, chapter 2, speech 38 · Evagrius of Gaul	quotation, high confidence	ca. 400
Deut 30:6	Letters 23.10 · Paulinus of Nola	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 394–413

Deuteronomy 30:9

So the LORD your God will make you abound in all the work of your hands and in the fruit of your womb, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your land. Indeed, the LORD will again delight in your prosperity, as He delighted in that of your fathers,
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Deut 30:9	On Man's Perfection in Righteousness 22 · Augustine of Hippo	quotation, high confidence	ca. 415

Deuteronomy 30:10

if you obey the LORD your God by keeping His commandments and statutes that are written in this Book of the Law, and if you turn to Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Deut 30:10	On Nature and Grace 83 · Augustine of Hippo	allusion, high confidence	415
Deut 30:10	On Man's Perfection in Righteousness 22 · Augustine of Hippo	quotation, high confidence	ca. 415

Deuteronomy 30:11

For this commandment I give you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Deut 30:11–14	Against Marcion 4.35 · Tertullian	quotation, high confidence	207/208 (third edition, completed later)
Deut 30:11	PG 12:1655 (Ps 138 LXX) · Origen	quotation, high confidence	ca. 220-254
Deut 30:11	Commentary on Romans 8.2 · Origen	quotation, high confidence	ca. 244–246 (Rufinus's translation ca. 405–406)
Deut 30:11	On Man's Perfection in Righteousness 22 · Augustine of Hippo	quotation, high confidence	ca. 415
Deut 30:11–14	Commonitorium 1.61–90 · Orientius of Auch	echo, medium confidence	ca. 420-450

Deuteronomy 30:12

It is not in heaven, that you should need to ask, ‘Who will ascend into heaven to get it for us and proclaim it, that we may obey it?’
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Deut 30:12	PG 12:1655 (Ps 138 LXX) · Origen	quotation, high confidence	ca. 220-254
Deut 30:12–14	Commentary on John 1.269 · Origen	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 230–248
Deut 30:12	Commentary on Romans 8.2 · Origen	quotation, high confidence	ca. 244–246 (Rufinus's translation ca. 405–406)
Deut 30:12	On the Trinity 10.68 · Hilary of Poitiers	allusion, high confidence	ca. 356–360
Deut 30:12	On the Trinity 10.69 · Hilary of Poitiers	allusion, high confidence	ca. 356–360
Deut 30:12	Commentary on Romans 10:6–7 · Ambrosiaster	quotation, high confidence	ca. 366–384
Deut 30:12	On the Spirit and the Letter 51 · Augustine of Hippo	allusion, medium confidence	412
Deut 30:12	On Man's Perfection in Righteousness 22 · Augustine of Hippo	quotation, high confidence	ca. 415

Deuteronomy 30:13

And it is not beyond the sea, that you should need to ask, ‘Who will cross the sea to get it for us and proclaim it, that we may obey it?’
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Deut 30:13	PG 12:1655 (Ps 138 LXX) · Origen	quotation, high confidence	ca. 220-254
Deut 30:13	Commentary on Romans 8.2 · Origen	quotation, high confidence	ca. 244–246 (Rufinus's translation ca. 405–406)
Deut 30:13	On the Trinity 10.69 · Hilary of Poitiers	allusion, high confidence	ca. 356–360
Deut 30:13	Commentary on Romans 10:6–7 · Ambrosiaster	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 366–384
Deut 30:13	On Man's Perfection in Righteousness 22 · Augustine of Hippo	quotation, high confidence	ca. 415

Deuteronomy 30:14

But the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart, so that you may obey it.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Deut 30:14	Exhortation to the Greeks 10.109 · Clement of Alexandria	quotation, high confidence	ca. 190–200
Deut 30:14	Miscellanies 2.19.97 · Clement of Alexandria	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 198–203
Deut 30:14	On First Principles 1.3.6 · Origen	echo, medium confidence	ca. 220–230 (Rufinus's translation 398)
Deut 30:14	PG 12:1655 (Ps 138 LXX) · Origen	quotation, high confidence	ca. 220-254
Deut 30:14	On Prayer 25.1 · Origen	quotation, high confidence	ca. 233–234
Deut 30:14	Commentary on Romans 8.2 · Origen	quotation, high confidence	ca. 244–246 (Rufinus's translation ca. 405–406)
Deut 30:14	Against the Heathen 30 · Athanasius of Alexandria	quotation, high confidence	ca. 318–325
Deut 30:14	On the Trinity 10.68 · Hilary of Poitiers	allusion, high confidence	ca. 356–360
Deut 30:14	On the Trinity 10.70 · Hilary of Poitiers	allusion, high confidence	ca. 356–360
Deut 30:14	Oration 17.2 · Gregory of Nazianzus	allusion, high confidence	ca. 362–383
Deut 30:14	Commentary on Romans 10:8 · Ambrosiaster	quotation, high confidence	ca. 366–384
Deut 30:14	On Virginity 23 · Gregory of Nyssa	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 370–371
Deut 30:14	Explanation of Twelve Psalms 48.20.2 · Ambrose	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 387-397
Deut 30:14	On Nature and Grace 83 · Augustine of Hippo	quotation, high confidence	415
Deut 30:14	On Man's Perfection in Righteousness 22 · Augustine of Hippo	quotation, high confidence	ca. 415

Deuteronomy 30:15

See, I have set before you today life and prosperity, as well as death and disaster.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Deut 30:15	Didache 1.1 · Anonymous	echo, medium confidence	ca. 50–150 (often ca. 100)
Deut 30:15	To the Magnesians 5.1 · Ignatius of Antioch	echo, medium confidence	ca. 110 (range ca. 105–135)
Deut 30:15	First Apology 44 · Justin Martyr	allusion, high confidence	ca. 150–155
Deut 30:15	Sibylline Oracles 8.391ff. · Anonymous	allusion, high confidence	2nd-3rd cent.
Deut 30:15	Exhortation to the Greeks 10.95 · Clement of Alexandria	quotation, high confidence	ca. 190–200
Deut 30:15	Miscellanies 5.11.72 · Clement of Alexandria	quotation, high confidence	ca. 198–203
Deut 30:15	Miscellanies 5.14.96 · Clement of Alexandria	quotation, high confidence	ca. 198–203
Deut 30:15	Miscellanies 6.6.48 · Clement of Alexandria	quotation, high confidence	ca. 198–203
Deut 30:15	Exhortation to Chastity 2 · Tertullian	quotation, high confidence	ca. 208
Deut 30:15	Against Marcion 2.5 · Tertullian	allusion, high confidence	207/208 (third edition, completed later)
Deut 30:15	On Monogamy 14 · Tertullian	quotation, high confidence	ca. 210–217
Deut 30:15	On First Principles 3.1.6 · Origen	quotation, high confidence	ca. 220–230 (Rufinus's translation 398)
Deut 30:15	Homilies on Leviticus 9.11 · Origen	quotation, high confidence	ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Deut 30:15	Homilies on Numbers 9.7 · Origen	allusion, high confidence	ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Deut 30:15	Lines 693–716 · Commodian	echo, low confidence	3rd century (disputed)
Deut 30:15	Instructions 1.22 · Commodian	echo, low confidence	3rd century (disputed)
Deut 30:15	Commentary on Matthew 12.33 · Origen	quotation, high confidence	ca. 246–248
Deut 30:15	Commentary on Matthew 15.23 · Origen	quotation, high confidence	ca. 246–248
Deut 30:15	Commentary on Romans 1.18 · Origen	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 244–246 (Rufinus's translation ca. 405–406)
Deut 30:15	To Quirinus 3.52 · Cyprian of Carthage	quotation, high confidence	ca. 248–250 (book 3 perhaps later)
Deut 30:15	Res. 1.31 · Methodius of Olympus	quotation, high confidence	late 3rd cent. (disputed)
Deut 30:15	Res. 2.2 · Methodius of Olympus	quotation, high confidence	late 3rd cent. (disputed)
Deut 30:15	Homilies 18.17 · Anonymous	quotation, medium confidence	4th century (reworking earlier material)
Deut 30:15	Epitome of the Divine Institutes 54.3 · Lactantius	echo, medium confidence	ca. 314–320
Deut 30:15	On Ecclesiastical Theology 3.3.1 · Eusebius of Caesarea	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 337–339
Deut 30:15	That One Must Die for the Son of God 13 · Lucifer of Cagliari	allusion, low confidence	ca. 356–361
Deut 30:15	Homilies on the Psalms 61.4 · Basil of Caesarea	quotation, high confidence	ca. 360-378
Deut 30:15	Question 115, section 56 · Ambrosiaster	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 370–384
Deut 30:15	Panarion (Adversus Haereses), Haer. 1-64 64.24.7 · Epiphanius of Salamis	quotation, high confidence	374-377
Deut 30:15	Panarion (Adversus Haereses), Haer. 1-64 64.56.9 · Epiphanius of Salamis	quotation, high confidence	374-377
Deut 30:15	Apostolic Constitutions 7.1.1 · Anonymous	quotation, high confidence	ca. 380
Deut 30:15	Eleven Tractates 10.136 · Priscillian	allusion, high confidence	ca. 380–385
Deut 30:15	On Fleeing the World 37 · Ambrose	quotation, high confidence	ca. 387-391
Deut 30:15	Explanation of Twelve Psalms 40.22.4 · Ambrose	quotation, high confidence	ca. 387-397
Deut 30:15	Commentary on Jeremiah 4.32 · Jerome	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 414-419
Deut 30:15	On Man's Perfection in Righteousness 40 · Augustine of Hippo	quotation, high confidence	ca. 415
Deut 30:15	On Man's Perfection in Righteousness 41 · Augustine of Hippo	allusion, high confidence	ca. 415

Deuteronomy 30:16

For I am commanding you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, statutes, and ordinances, so that you may live and increase, and the LORD your God may bless you in the land that you are entering to possess.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Deut 30:16	Miscellanies 5.11.72 · Clement of Alexandria	quotation, high confidence	ca. 198–203

Deuteronomy 30:18

I declare to you today that you will surely perish; you shall not prolong your days in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Deut 30:18	Miscellanies 5.11.72 · Clement of Alexandria	quotation, medium confidence	ca. 198–203

Deuteronomy 30:19

I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore choose life, so that you and your descendants may live,
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Deut 30:19	Epistle of the Apostles 39 · Anonymous	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 140-170
Deut 30:19	First Apology 44 · Justin Martyr	allusion, high confidence	ca. 150–155
Deut 30:19	Sibylline Oracles 8.391ff. · Anonymous	allusion, high confidence	2nd-3rd cent.
Deut 30:19	Exhortation to the Greeks 12.123 · Clement of Alexandria	echo, medium confidence	ca. 190–200
Deut 30:19	Against Heresies 4.16.4 · Irenaeus of Lyons	quotation, high confidence	ca. 180–190
Deut 30:19	Miscellanies 2.4.12 · Clement of Alexandria	echo, medium confidence	ca. 198–203
Deut 30:19	Miscellanies 5.14.96 · Clement of Alexandria	quotation, high confidence	ca. 198–203
Deut 30:19	Miscellanies 6.6.48 · Clement of Alexandria	quotation, high confidence	ca. 198–203
Deut 30:19	Against Marcion 2.5 · Tertullian	allusion, medium confidence	207/208 (third edition, completed later)
Deut 30:19	On First Principles 3.1.6 · Origen	quotation, high confidence	ca. 220–230 (Rufinus's translation 398)
Deut 30:19	Homilies on Leviticus 9.11 · Origen	quotation, high confidence	ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Deut 30:19	Lines 73–96 · Commodian	allusion, medium confidence	3rd century (disputed)
Deut 30:19	To Quirinus 3.52 · Cyprian of Carthage	quotation, high confidence	ca. 248–250 (book 3 perhaps later)
Deut 30:19	Res. 1.31 · Methodius of Olympus	quotation, high confidence	late 3rd cent. (disputed)
Deut 30:19	Long recension, Magnesians 5 · Anonymous	allusion, medium confidence	later 4th century (probable)
Deut 30:19	Panarion (Adversus Haereses), Haer. 1-64 64.24.7 · Epiphanius of Salamis	quotation, high confidence	374-377
Deut 30:19	Apostolic Constitutions 7.1.1 · Anonymous	quotation, high confidence	ca. 380
Deut 30:19	Exposition of Psalm 118 19.15.1 · Ambrose	allusion, high confidence	ca. 386-397
Deut 30:19	Letters 30.3 · Paulinus of Nola	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 394–413
Deut 30:19	Questions and Answers to the Orthodox 91–92 · Anonymous	allusion, high confidence	5th century (disputed)
Deut 30:19	On Man's Perfection in Righteousness 40 · Augustine of Hippo	quotation, high confidence	ca. 415
Deut 30:19	On Man's Perfection in Righteousness 41 · Augustine of Hippo	allusion, high confidence	ca. 415
Deut 30:19	The Conferences 21.5 · John Cassian	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 426–429

Deuteronomy 30:20

and that you may love the LORD your God, obey Him, and hold fast to Him. For He is your life, and He will prolong your life in the land that the LORD swore to give to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Deut 30:20	Against Heresies 4.16.4 · Irenaeus of Lyons	quotation, high confidence	ca. 180–190
Deut 30:20	Miscellanies 5.11.72 · Clement of Alexandria	quotation, high confidence	ca. 198–203
Deut 30:20	Miscellanies 5.14.96 · Clement of Alexandria	quotation, high confidence	ca. 198–203