Deuteronomy 5 in the early church
92 passages quote, allude to, or echo Deuteronomy 5, 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 5:1
Then Moses summoned all Israel and said to them: Hear, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances that I declare in your hearing this day. Learn them and observe them carefully.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deut 5:1–3 | Demonstration of the Gospel 1.6.8 · Eusebius of Caesarea | quotation, high confidence | ca. 314–324 |
Deuteronomy 5:2
The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deut 5:2 | Against Heresies 4.16.2 · Irenaeus of Lyons | quotation, high confidence | ca. 180–190 |
| Deut 5:2 | Miscellanies 6.5.41 · Clement of Alexandria | allusion, medium confidence | ca. 198–203 |
Deuteronomy 5:3
He did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with all of us who are alive here today.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deut 5:3 | Against Heresies 4.16.2 · Irenaeus of Lyons | quotation, high confidence | ca. 180–190 |
| Deut 5:3 | Prophetic Extracts 1.12 · Eusebius of Caesarea | quotation, high confidence | before 325 (probably ca. 310–320) |
Deuteronomy 5:4
The LORD spoke with you face to face out of the fire on the mountain.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deut 5:4 | Prophetic Extracts 1.12 · Eusebius of Caesarea | quotation, high confidence | before 325 (probably ca. 310–320) |
Deuteronomy 5:6
“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deut 5:6 | Arabic Pentateuch fragment XXII (on Deut 5) · Hippolytus of Rome | allusion, high confidence | unknown (transmitted in a medieval Arabic catena) |
| Deut 5:6 | Eclogae on Exodus-Judges, column 803 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 220-254 |
| Deut 5:6 | Tractates on the Gospel of John 41.2 · Augustine of Hippo | allusion, high confidence | ca. 406–420 |
| Deut 5:6–21 | Questions on Exodus 71 (on Exod 21:10-11) · Augustine of Hippo | allusion, medium confidence | ca. 419–420 |
Deuteronomy 5:7
You shall have no other gods before Me.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deut 5:7–9 | Against Celsus 7.64 · Origen | allusion, medium confidence | ca. 248 |
| Deut 5:7 | To Fortunatus 2 · Cyprian of Carthage | quotation, high confidence | 253 or 257 |
Deuteronomy 5:8
You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deut 5:8 | Exhortation to the Greeks 4.62 · Clement of Alexandria | quotation, medium confidence | ca. 190–200 |
Deuteronomy 5:9
You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deut 5:9 | Excerpts from Theodotus 28.1 · Clement of Alexandria | quotation, medium confidence | ca. 200 |
| Deut 5:9 | On First Principles 2.5.2 · Origen | allusion, high confidence | ca. 220–230 (Rufinus's translation 398) |
| Deut 5:9 | Letter 73.10 · Cyprian of Carthage | quotation, high confidence | 249/250–258 |
| Deut 5:9 | Enchiridion (Handbook on Faith, Hope, and Love) 46 · Augustine of Hippo | quotation, medium confidence | ca. 421–423 |
Deuteronomy 5:12
Observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy, as the LORD your God has commanded you.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deut 5:12 | Epistle of Barnabas 15.1 · Anonymous | allusion, high confidence | ca. 70–135 (often ca. 130) |
| Deut 5:12–15 | Against Adimantus, a Disciple of Mani 16 · Augustine of Hippo | quotation, high confidence | ca. 394 |
| Deut 5:12 | Tractates on the Gospel of John 3.19 · Augustine of Hippo | quotation, medium confidence | ca. 406–420 |
Deuteronomy 5:14
but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God, on which you must not do any work—neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your ox or donkey or any of your livestock, nor the foreigner within your gates, so that your manservant and maidservant may rest as you do.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deut 5:14 | Demonstration 13.1 · Aphrahat | quotation, high confidence | 337-345 |
| Deut 5:14 | Demonstration 13.2 · Aphrahat | quotation, high confidence | 337-345 |
| Deut 5:14 | Homilies 1.6 · Basil of Caesarea | quotation, high confidence | ca. 363-378 |
Deuteronomy 5:15
Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD your God brought you out of there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. That is why the LORD your God has commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deut 5:15 | Apology 14 · Aristides of Athens | allusion, medium confidence | ca. 125–145 |
| Deut 5:15 | Dialogue with Trypho 11.1 · Justin Martyr | allusion, high confidence | ca. 155–160 |
| Deut 5:15 | On Fasting 5 · Tertullian | allusion, medium confidence | ca. 210–220 |
| Deut 5:15 | Homilies on Judges 1.5 · Origen | allusion, medium confidence | ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410) |
| Deut 5:15 | Church History 10.8.19 · Eusebius of Caesarea | echo, low confidence | ca. 300–325 |
| Deut 5:15 | Demonstration of the Gospel 7.2.17 · Eusebius of Caesarea | echo, low confidence | ca. 314–324 |
Deuteronomy 5:16
Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deut 5:16 | The Instructor 3.12.89 · Clement of Alexandria | quotation, medium confidence | ca. 190–200 |
| Deut 5:16 | Against Heresies 4.9.3 · Irenaeus of Lyons | quotation, high confidence | ca. 180–190 |
| Deut 5:16 | Homily on the Song of Songs 2 · Origen | allusion, medium confidence | ca. 240–250 |
| Deut 5:16 | Catechetical Lecture 7.14 · Cyril of Jerusalem | quotation, high confidence | ca. 350 |
| Deut 5:16 | Canonical Letter, Migne PG 45:235 · Gregory of Nyssa | quotation, medium confidence | ca. 390 |
| Deut 5:16 | Explanation of Twelve Psalms 43.8.3 · Ambrose | quotation, high confidence | ca. 387-397 |
| Deut 5:16 | Deuteronomy, lines 53–77 · Cyprianus Gallus | allusion, medium confidence | early 5th cent. |
Deuteronomy 5:20
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deut 5:20 | Sermon 81.5 · Augustine of Hippo | quotation, high confidence | ca. 391-430 |
Deuteronomy 5:21
You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. You shall not covet your neighbor’s house or field, or his manservant or maidservant, or his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deut 5:21 | Miscellanies 3.2.8 · Clement of Alexandria | quotation, medium confidence | ca. 198–203 |
| Deut 5:21 | Apostolic Constitutions 1.1.2 · Anonymous | quotation, high confidence | ca. 380 |
| Deut 5:21 | On the Spirit and the Letter 23 · Augustine of Hippo | allusion, medium confidence | 412 |
Deuteronomy 5:22
The LORD spoke these commandments in a loud voice to your whole assembly out of the fire, the cloud, and the deep darkness on the mountain; He added nothing more. And He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deut 5:22 | Against Heresies 4.15.1 · Irenaeus of Lyons | quotation, high confidence | ca. 180–190 |
| Deut 5:22 | Against Heresies 4.16.4 · Irenaeus of Lyons | quotation, high confidence | ca. 180–190 |
| Deut 5:22 | Refutation of All Heresies 5.20.2 · Hippolytus of Rome | allusion, medium confidence | ca. 222–235 |
| Deut 5:22 | Refutation of All Heresies 8.8.5 · Hippolytus of Rome | quotation, high confidence | ca. 222–235 |
| Deut 5:22 | Homilies 3.45 · Anonymous | allusion, medium confidence | 4th century (reworking earlier material) |
Deuteronomy 5:23
And when you heard the voice out of the darkness while the mountain was blazing with fire, all the heads of your tribes and your elders approached me,
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deut 5:23–27 | Demonstration 18.5 · Aphrahat | allusion, medium confidence | 337-345 |
Deuteronomy 5:24
and you said, “Behold, the LORD our God has shown us His glory and greatness, and we have heard His voice out of the fire. Today we have seen that a man can live even if God speaks with him.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deut 5:24 | Against Heresies 4.20.6 · Irenaeus of Lyons | quotation, high confidence | ca. 180–190 |
Deuteronomy 5:26
For who of all flesh has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the fire, as we have, and survived?
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deut 5:26 | Catechetical Lecture 12.13 · Cyril of Jerusalem | quotation, high confidence | ca. 350 |
Deuteronomy 5:31
But you stand here with Me, that I may speak to you all the commandments and statutes and ordinances you are to teach them to follow in the land that I am giving them to possess.”
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deut 5:31 | Miscellanies 2.11.52 · Clement of Alexandria | quotation, high confidence | ca. 198–203 |
| Deut 5:31 | Fragments on Luke, column 339 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 220-254 |
| Deut 5:31 | PG 12:1265 (Ps 22–23 LXX) · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 220-254 |
| Deut 5:31 | PG 12:1495 (Ps 65 LXX) · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 220-254 |
| Deut 5:31 | PG 12:1571 (Ps 114–115 LXX) · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 220-254 |
| Deut 5:31 | Homilies on Ezekiel 2.4 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 238–250 (Jerome's translation in the 380s) |
| Deut 5:31 | Against Celsus 6.64 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 248 |
| Deut 5:31 | Commentary on Matthew 12.32 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 246–248 |
| Deut 5:31 | Commentary on Romans 5.8 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 244–246 (Rufinus's translation ca. 405–406) |
| Deut 5:31 | Tractates on the Psalms 124.4 · Hilary of Poitiers | quotation, high confidence | ca. 360–367 |
| Deut 5:31 | Tractates on the Psalms 133.2 · Hilary of Poitiers | quotation, high confidence | ca. 360–367 |
| Deut 5:31 | Letter 21.15 · Jerome | quotation, high confidence | ca. 370–419 |
| Deut 5:31 | Letter 122.4 · Jerome | quotation, high confidence | ca. 370–419 |
| Deut 5:31 | On Cain and Abel 1.7 · Ambrose | quotation, high confidence | ca. 375-378 |
| Deut 5:31 | Apostolic Constitutions 2.57.8 · Anonymous | quotation, high confidence | ca. 380 |
| Deut 5:31 | On the Complaints of Job and David 3.26 · Ambrose | quotation, high confidence | ca. 383-390 |
| Deut 5:31 | Exposition of Psalm 118 13.17.3 · Ambrose | quotation, high confidence | ca. 386-397 |
| Deut 5:31 | Exposition of Psalm 118 15.7.2 · Ambrose | quotation, high confidence | ca. 386-397 |
| Deut 5:31 | Explanation of Twelve Psalms 1.26.2 · Ambrose | quotation, high confidence | ca. 387-397 |
| Deut 5:31 | Explanation of Twelve Psalms 61.19.2 · Ambrose | quotation, high confidence | ca. 387-397 |
| Deut 5:31 | Commentary on Jeremiah 3.32 · Jerome | quotation, high confidence | ca. 414-419 |
| Deut 5:31 | Commentary on Jeremiah 5.36 · Jerome | allusion, medium confidence | ca. 414-419 |
Deuteronomy 5:32
So be careful to do as the LORD your God has commanded you; you are not to turn aside to the right or to the left.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deut 5:32 | Homilies on Exodus 6.14 · Origen | allusion, medium confidence | ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410) |
| Deut 5:32 | Homilies on Numbers 3.2 · Origen | allusion, medium confidence | ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410) |
| Deut 5:32 | Homilies on Psalms 36-38 4.1 · Origen | allusion, medium confidence | ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410) |
| Deut 5:32 | Homilies on Psalms 36-38 5.4 · Origen | allusion, medium confidence | ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410) |
| Deut 5:32 | Commentary on the Song of Songs 2.127 · Origen | allusion, high confidence | ca. 240–245 (Rufinus's translation ca. 410) |
| Deut 5:32 | Commentary on the Song of Songs 3.186 · Origen | allusion, medium confidence | ca. 240–245 (Rufinus's translation ca. 410) |
| Deut 5:32 | On the Singleness of Clerics 13 · Anonymous | quotation, medium confidence | 3rd cent. (disputed) |
| Deut 5:32 | Commentary on Matthew, Latin Series 33 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 244–249 (Latin translation, 4th–5th century) |
| Deut 5:32 | Appendix of Ten Documents on the Donatist Controversy 1 · Anonymous | allusion, medium confidence | documents of 303–330 |
| Deut 5:32 | Preparation for the Gospel 6.6.48 · Eusebius of Caesarea | allusion, low confidence | ca. 313–324 |
| Deut 5:32 | 4 · Anonymous | allusion, medium confidence | 320 (inquiry of 3 Dec. 320 into events of 303) |
| Deut 5:32 | Catechetical Lecture 11.15 · Cyril of Jerusalem | echo, low confidence | ca. 350 |
| Deut 5:32 | Oration 2.33 · Gregory of Nazianzus | allusion, medium confidence | ca. 362–383 |
| Deut 5:32 | Oration 3.7 · Gregory of Nazianzus | allusion, medium confidence | ca. 362–383 |
| Deut 5:32 | Homilies 3.1 · Basil of Caesarea | allusion, medium confidence | ca. 363-378 |
| Deut 5:32 | Letter 49.8 · Jerome | echo, low confidence | ca. 370–419 |
| Deut 5:32 | Apostolic Constitutions 7.19.1 · Anonymous | quotation, high confidence | ca. 380 |
| Deut 5:32 | Exposition of Psalm 118 1.8.1 · Ambrose | allusion, medium confidence | ca. 386-397 |
| Deut 5:32 | Homily 11 · Gregory of Nyssa | allusion, medium confidence | ca. 390–394 |
| Deut 5:32 | Against Faustus the Manichaean 17.2 · Augustine of Hippo | allusion, high confidence | ca. 398–400 |
| Deut 5:32 | On the Merits and Forgiveness of Sins 2.57 · Augustine of Hippo | allusion, medium confidence | 411–412 |
| Deut 5:32 | Apologetic Book 23.1 · Orosius | echo, low confidence | ca. 415–416 |