Deuteronomy 9 in the early church
26 passages quote, allude to, or echo Deuteronomy 9, 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 · 9 · 10 · 12 · 13 · 14 · 17 · 18 · 20 · 24
Deuteronomy 9:4
When the LORD your God has driven them out before you, do not say in your heart, “Because of my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land.” Rather, the LORD is driving out these nations before you because of their wickedness.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deut 9:4–5 | On Cain and Abel 1.28 · Ambrose | quotation, high confidence | ca. 375-378 |
| Deut 9:4–5 | City of God 16.43 · Augustine of Hippo | allusion, high confidence | 413–426 |
| Deut 9:4 | The Conferences 5.15 · John Cassian | quotation, high confidence | ca. 426–429 |
Deuteronomy 9:5
It is not because of your righteousness or uprightness of heart that you are going in to possess their land, but it is because of their wickedness that the LORD your God is driving out these nations before you, to keep the promise He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deut 9:5 | The Conferences 5.15 · John Cassian | quotation, high confidence | ca. 426–429 |
Deuteronomy 9:9
When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I ate no bread and drank no water.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deut 9:9 | 1 Clement 53.2 · Clement of Rome | echo, medium confidence | ca. 95–97 (range ca. 70–100) |
| Deut 9:9 | Miscellanies 3.7.57 · Clement of Alexandria | allusion, medium confidence | ca. 198–203 |
| Deut 9:9 | Commentary on John 10.100 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 230–248 |
| Deut 9:9 | On Prayer 27.4 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 233–234 |
| Deut 9:9 | Demonstration 3.3 · Aphrahat | allusion, high confidence | 337-345 |
| Deut 9:9 | Sermon 51.31 · Augustine of Hippo | allusion, high confidence | ca. 391-430 |
Deuteronomy 9:10
Then the LORD gave me the two stone tablets, inscribed by the finger of God with the exact words that the LORD spoke to you out of the fire on the mountain on the day of the assembly.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deut 9:10 | Catechetical Lecture 18.24 · Cyril of Jerusalem | quotation, high confidence | ca. 350 |
Deuteronomy 9:12
And the LORD said to me, “Get up and go down from here at once, for your people, whom you brought out of Egypt, have corrupted themselves. How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves a molten image.”
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deut 9:12 | 1 Clement 53.2 · Clement of Rome | quotation, high confidence | ca. 95–97 (range ca. 70–100) |
| Deut 9:12 | Epistle of Barnabas 4.8 · Anonymous | allusion, medium confidence | ca. 70–135 (often ca. 130) |
| Deut 9:12 | Epistle of Barnabas 14.3 · Anonymous | allusion, high confidence | ca. 70–135 (often ca. 130) |
Deuteronomy 9:13
The LORD also said to me, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deut 9:13 | 1 Clement 53.3 · Clement of Rome | quotation, high confidence | ca. 95–97 (range ca. 70–100) |
| Deut 9:13 | Miscellanies 4.19.118 · Clement of Alexandria | quotation, high confidence | ca. 198–203 |
Deuteronomy 9:14
Leave Me alone, so that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. Then I will make you into a nation mightier and greater than they are.”
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deut 9:14 | 1 Clement 53.3 · Clement of Rome | quotation, high confidence | ca. 95–97 (range ca. 70–100) |
| Deut 9:14 | Miscellanies 4.19.118 · Clement of Alexandria | quotation, high confidence | ca. 198–203 |
Deuteronomy 9:17
So I took the two tablets and threw them out of my hands, shattering them before your eyes.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deut 9:17 | Epistle of Barnabas 14.3 · Anonymous | allusion, medium confidence | ca. 70–135 (often ca. 130) |
Deuteronomy 9:18
Then I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD and provoking Him to anger.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deut 9:18 | On Prayer 14.3 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 233–234 |
| Deut 9:18–19 | Demonstration 3.3 · Aphrahat | allusion, high confidence | 337-345 |
| Deut 9:18 | On the Holy Spirit 46 · Didymus the Blind | allusion, medium confidence | Greek ca. 360-390; Latin 387-391 |
Deuteronomy 9:20
The LORD was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him, but at that time I also prayed for Aaron.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deut 9:20 | Catechetical Lecture 2.5 · Cyril of Jerusalem | quotation, high confidence | ca. 350 |
| Deut 9:20 | Letter 77.4 · Jerome | allusion, high confidence | ca. 370–419 |
Deuteronomy 9:24
You have been rebelling against the LORD since the day I came to know you.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deut 9:24 | Demonstration 11.1 · Aphrahat | quotation, high confidence | 337-345 |
| Deut 9:24 | Demonstration 19.3 · Aphrahat | quotation, high confidence | 337-345 |