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.

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Deut 5:1–3Demonstration of the Gospel 1.6.8 · Eusebius of Caesareaquotation, high confidenceca. 314–324

Deuteronomy 5:2

The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.

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Deut 5:2Against Heresies 4.16.2 · Irenaeus of Lyonsquotation, high confidenceca. 180–190
Deut 5:2Miscellanies 6.5.41 · Clement of Alexandriaallusion, medium confidenceca. 198–203

Deuteronomy 5:3

He did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with all of us who are alive here today.

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Deut 5:3Against Heresies 4.16.2 · Irenaeus of Lyonsquotation, high confidenceca. 180–190
Deut 5:3Prophetic Extracts 1.12 · Eusebius of Caesareaquotation, high confidencebefore 325 (probably ca. 310–320)

Deuteronomy 5:4

The LORD spoke with you face to face out of the fire on the mountain.

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Deut 5:4Prophetic Extracts 1.12 · Eusebius of Caesareaquotation, high confidencebefore 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.

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Deut 5:6Arabic Pentateuch fragment XXII (on Deut 5) · Hippolytus of Romeallusion, high confidenceunknown (transmitted in a medieval Arabic catena)
Deut 5:6Eclogae on Exodus-Judges, column 803 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 220-254
Deut 5:6Tractates on the Gospel of John 41.2 · Augustine of Hippoallusion, high confidenceca. 406–420
Deut 5:6–21Questions on Exodus 71 (on Exod 21:10-11) · Augustine of Hippoallusion, medium confidenceca. 419–420

Deuteronomy 5:7

You shall have no other gods before Me.

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Deut 5:7–9Against Celsus 7.64 · Origenallusion, medium confidenceca. 248
Deut 5:7To Fortunatus 2 · Cyprian of Carthagequotation, high confidence253 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.

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Deut 5:8Exhortation to the Greeks 4.62 · Clement of Alexandriaquotation, medium confidenceca. 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,

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Deut 5:9Excerpts from Theodotus 28.1 · Clement of Alexandriaquotation, medium confidenceca. 200
Deut 5:9On First Principles 2.5.2 · Origenallusion, high confidenceca. 220–230 (Rufinus's translation 398)
Deut 5:9Letter 73.10 · Cyprian of Carthagequotation, high confidence249/250–258
Deut 5:9Enchiridion (Handbook on Faith, Hope, and Love) 46 · Augustine of Hippoquotation, medium confidenceca. 421–423

Deuteronomy 5:12

Observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy, as the LORD your God has commanded you.

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Deut 5:12Epistle of Barnabas 15.1 · Anonymousallusion, high confidenceca. 70–135 (often ca. 130)
Deut 5:12–15Against Adimantus, a Disciple of Mani 16 · Augustine of Hippoquotation, high confidenceca. 394
Deut 5:12Tractates on the Gospel of John 3.19 · Augustine of Hippoquotation, medium confidenceca. 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.

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Deut 5:14Demonstration 13.1 · Aphrahatquotation, high confidence337-345
Deut 5:14Demonstration 13.2 · Aphrahatquotation, high confidence337-345
Deut 5:14Homilies 1.6 · Basil of Caesareaquotation, high confidenceca. 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.

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Deut 5:15Apology 14 · Aristides of Athensallusion, medium confidenceca. 125–145
Deut 5:15Dialogue with Trypho 11.1 · Justin Martyrallusion, high confidenceca. 155–160
Deut 5:15On Fasting 5 · Tertullianallusion, medium confidenceca. 210–220
Deut 5:15Homilies on Judges 1.5 · Origenallusion, medium confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Deut 5:15Church History 10.8.19 · Eusebius of Caesareaecho, low confidenceca. 300–325
Deut 5:15Demonstration of the Gospel 7.2.17 · Eusebius of Caesareaecho, low confidenceca. 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.

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Deut 5:16The Instructor 3.12.89 · Clement of Alexandriaquotation, medium confidenceca. 190–200
Deut 5:16Against Heresies 4.9.3 · Irenaeus of Lyonsquotation, high confidenceca. 180–190
Deut 5:16Homily on the Song of Songs 2 · Origenallusion, medium confidenceca. 240–250
Deut 5:16Catechetical Lecture 7.14 · Cyril of Jerusalemquotation, high confidenceca. 350
Deut 5:16Canonical Letter, Migne PG 45:235 · Gregory of Nyssaquotation, medium confidenceca. 390
Deut 5:16Explanation of Twelve Psalms 43.8.3 · Ambrosequotation, high confidenceca. 387-397
Deut 5:16Deuteronomy, lines 53–77 · Cyprianus Gallusallusion, medium confidenceearly 5th cent.

Deuteronomy 5:20

You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

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Deut 5:20Sermon 81.5 · Augustine of Hippoquotation, high confidenceca. 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.”

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Deut 5:21Miscellanies 3.2.8 · Clement of Alexandriaquotation, medium confidenceca. 198–203
Deut 5:21Apostolic Constitutions 1.1.2 · Anonymousquotation, high confidenceca. 380
Deut 5:21On the Spirit and the Letter 23 · Augustine of Hippoallusion, medium confidence412

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.

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Deut 5:22Against Heresies 4.15.1 · Irenaeus of Lyonsquotation, high confidenceca. 180–190
Deut 5:22Against Heresies 4.16.4 · Irenaeus of Lyonsquotation, high confidenceca. 180–190
Deut 5:22Refutation of All Heresies 5.20.2 · Hippolytus of Romeallusion, medium confidenceca. 222–235
Deut 5:22Refutation of All Heresies 8.8.5 · Hippolytus of Romequotation, high confidenceca. 222–235
Deut 5:22Homilies 3.45 · Anonymousallusion, medium confidence4th 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,

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Deut 5:23–27Demonstration 18.5 · Aphrahatallusion, medium confidence337-345

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.

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Deut 5:24Against Heresies 4.20.6 · Irenaeus of Lyonsquotation, high confidenceca. 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?

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Deut 5:26Catechetical Lecture 12.13 · Cyril of Jerusalemquotation, high confidenceca. 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.”

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Deut 5:31Miscellanies 2.11.52 · Clement of Alexandriaquotation, high confidenceca. 198–203
Deut 5:31Fragments on Luke, column 339 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 220-254
Deut 5:31PG 12:1265 (Ps 22–23 LXX) · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 220-254
Deut 5:31PG 12:1495 (Ps 65 LXX) · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 220-254
Deut 5:31PG 12:1571 (Ps 114–115 LXX) · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 220-254
Deut 5:31Homilies on Ezekiel 2.4 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 238–250 (Jerome's translation in the 380s)
Deut 5:31Against Celsus 6.64 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 248
Deut 5:31Commentary on Matthew 12.32 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 246–248
Deut 5:31Commentary on Romans 5.8 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 244–246 (Rufinus's translation ca. 405–406)
Deut 5:31Tractates on the Psalms 124.4 · Hilary of Poitiersquotation, high confidenceca. 360–367
Deut 5:31Tractates on the Psalms 133.2 · Hilary of Poitiersquotation, high confidenceca. 360–367
Deut 5:31Letter 21.15 · Jeromequotation, high confidenceca. 370–419
Deut 5:31Letter 122.4 · Jeromequotation, high confidenceca. 370–419
Deut 5:31On Cain and Abel 1.7 · Ambrosequotation, high confidenceca. 375-378
Deut 5:31Apostolic Constitutions 2.57.8 · Anonymousquotation, high confidenceca. 380
Deut 5:31On the Complaints of Job and David 3.26 · Ambrosequotation, high confidenceca. 383-390
Deut 5:31Exposition of Psalm 118 13.17.3 · Ambrosequotation, high confidenceca. 386-397
Deut 5:31Exposition of Psalm 118 15.7.2 · Ambrosequotation, high confidenceca. 386-397
Deut 5:31Explanation of Twelve Psalms 1.26.2 · Ambrosequotation, high confidenceca. 387-397
Deut 5:31Explanation of Twelve Psalms 61.19.2 · Ambrosequotation, high confidenceca. 387-397
Deut 5:31Commentary on Jeremiah 3.32 · Jeromequotation, high confidenceca. 414-419
Deut 5:31Commentary on Jeremiah 5.36 · Jeromeallusion, medium confidenceca. 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.

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Deut 5:32Homilies on Exodus 6.14 · Origenallusion, medium confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Deut 5:32Homilies on Numbers 3.2 · Origenallusion, medium confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Deut 5:32Homilies on Psalms 36-38 4.1 · Origenallusion, medium confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Deut 5:32Homilies on Psalms 36-38 5.4 · Origenallusion, medium confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Deut 5:32Commentary on the Song of Songs 2.127 · Origenallusion, high confidenceca. 240–245 (Rufinus's translation ca. 410)
Deut 5:32Commentary on the Song of Songs 3.186 · Origenallusion, medium confidenceca. 240–245 (Rufinus's translation ca. 410)
Deut 5:32On the Singleness of Clerics 13 · Anonymousquotation, medium confidence3rd cent. (disputed)
Deut 5:32Commentary on Matthew, Latin Series 33 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 244–249 (Latin translation, 4th–5th century)
Deut 5:32Appendix of Ten Documents on the Donatist Controversy 1 · Anonymousallusion, medium confidencedocuments of 303–330
Deut 5:32Preparation for the Gospel 6.6.48 · Eusebius of Caesareaallusion, low confidenceca. 313–324
Deut 5:324 · Anonymousallusion, medium confidence320 (inquiry of 3 Dec. 320 into events of 303)
Deut 5:32Catechetical Lecture 11.15 · Cyril of Jerusalemecho, low confidenceca. 350
Deut 5:32Oration 2.33 · Gregory of Nazianzusallusion, medium confidenceca. 362–383
Deut 5:32Oration 3.7 · Gregory of Nazianzusallusion, medium confidenceca. 362–383
Deut 5:32Homilies 3.1 · Basil of Caesareaallusion, medium confidenceca. 363-378
Deut 5:32Letter 49.8 · Jeromeecho, low confidenceca. 370–419
Deut 5:32Apostolic Constitutions 7.19.1 · Anonymousquotation, high confidenceca. 380
Deut 5:32Exposition of Psalm 118 1.8.1 · Ambroseallusion, medium confidenceca. 386-397
Deut 5:32Homily 11 · Gregory of Nyssaallusion, medium confidenceca. 390–394
Deut 5:32Against Faustus the Manichaean 17.2 · Augustine of Hippoallusion, high confidenceca. 398–400
Deut 5:32On the Merits and Forgiveness of Sins 2.57 · Augustine of Hippoallusion, medium confidence411–412
Deut 5:32Apologetic Book 23.1 · Orosiusecho, low confidenceca. 415–416