Deuteronomy 10 in the early church

62 passages quote, allude to, or echo Deuteronomy 10, 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: 9 · 10 · 12 · 13 · 14 · 15 · 16 · 17 · 18 · 19 · 20 · 21 · 22

Deuteronomy 10:9

That is why Levi has no portion or inheritance among his brothers; the LORD is his inheritance, as the LORD your God promised him.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Deut 10:9	Against Heresies 4.8.3 · Irenaeus of Lyons	quotation, high confidence	ca. 180–190
Deut 10:9	Homilies on Joshua 9.5 · Origen	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Deut 10:9	Homilies on Leviticus 7.1 · Origen	quotation, medium confidence	ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Deut 10:9	Homilies on Numbers 21.1 · Origen	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Deut 10:9	On the Duties of the Clergy 1.50 · Ambrose	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 386–390
Deut 10:9	Exposition of Psalm 118 8.4.4 · Ambrose	quotation, high confidence	ca. 386-397

Deuteronomy 10:10

I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights, like the first time, and that time the LORD again listened to me and agreed not to destroy you.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Deut 10:10	Fragments on Luke, column 339 · Origen	quotation, high confidence	ca. 220-254
Deut 10:10	Commentary on Matthew 12.32 · Origen	quotation, high confidence	ca. 246–248

Deuteronomy 10:12

And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God by walking in all His ways, to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Deut 10:12	Against Heresies 4.16.4 · Irenaeus of Lyons	quotation, high confidence	ca. 180–190
Deut 10:12	Miscellanies 4.26.170 · Clement of Alexandria	quotation, high confidence	ca. 198–203
Deut 10:12–13	Fragment 91 on John 12:83 · Origen	quotation, high confidence	ca. 226-254
Deut 10:12	Homily on Luke 39 · Origen	quotation, high confidence	ca. 233–250
Deut 10:12	Homilies on Numbers 12.3 · Origen	quotation, high confidence	ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Deut 10:12	Homilies on Numbers 24.2 · Origen	quotation, high confidence	ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Deut 10:12–13	Against Celsus 6.57 · Origen	quotation, high confidence	ca. 248
Deut 10:12	Homilies 17.12 · Anonymous	echo, medium confidence	4th century (reworking earlier material)
Deut 10:12–13	Tractates on the Psalms 2.15 · Hilary of Poitiers	quotation, high confidence	ca. 360–367
Deut 10:12–13	Tractates on the Psalms 118.4.3 · Hilary of Poitiers	quotation, high confidence	ca. 360–367
Deut 10:12–13	Tractates on the Psalms 118.4.8 · Hilary of Poitiers	quotation, high confidence	ca. 360–367
Deut 10:12	Tractates on the Psalms 127.2 · Hilary of Poitiers	quotation, high confidence	ca. 360–367
Deut 10:12–13	Tractates 1.8.2 · Zeno of Verona	quotation, high confidence	ca. 362-380
Deut 10:12	Exposition of Psalm 118 4.10.2 · Ambrose	quotation, high confidence	ca. 386-397
Deut 10:12	On Fleeing the World 33 · Ambrose	allusion, high confidence	ca. 387-391
Deut 10:12	Explanation of Twelve Psalms 1.30.4 · Ambrose	quotation, high confidence	ca. 387-397

Deuteronomy 10:13

and to keep the commandments and statutes of the LORD that I am giving you this day for your own good?
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Deut 10:13	Tractates on the Psalms 127.2 · Hilary of Poitiers	quotation, high confidence	ca. 360–367
Deut 10:13	Exposition of Psalm 118 4.10.2 · Ambrose	quotation, high confidence	ca. 386-397

Deuteronomy 10:14

Behold, to the LORD your God belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, and the earth and everything in it.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Deut 10:14	Homilies 16.7 · Anonymous	quotation, high confidence	4th century (reworking earlier material)
Deut 10:14	Recognitions 2.43 · Anonymous	quotation, high confidence	Greek original 3rd–4th century; Rufinus's Latin translation before 407

Deuteronomy 10:15

Yet the LORD has set His affection on your fathers and loved them. And He has chosen you, their descendants after them, above all the peoples, even to this day.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Deut 10:15	Recognitions 2.43 · Anonymous	quotation, high confidence	Greek original 3rd–4th century; Rufinus's Latin translation before 407

Deuteronomy 10:16

Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and stiffen your necks no more.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Deut 10:16	Epistle of Barnabas 9.5 · Anonymous	quotation, high confidence	ca. 70–135 (often ca. 130)
Deut 10:16	Dialogue with Trypho 15.7 · Justin Martyr	allusion, high confidence	ca. 155–160
Deut 10:16	Dialogue with Trypho 16.1 · Justin Martyr	quotation, high confidence	ca. 155–160
Deut 10:16	Against Heresies 4.16.1 · Irenaeus of Lyons	quotation, high confidence	ca. 180–190
Deut 10:16	Miscellanies 6.3.30 · Clement of Alexandria	quotation, high confidence	ca. 198–203
Deut 10:16	Against Marcion 5.4 · Tertullian	quotation, high confidence	207/208 (third edition, completed later)
Deut 10:16	Against Marcion 5.13 · Tertullian	quotation, high confidence	207/208 (third edition, completed later)
Deut 10:16	Demonstration 11.5 · Aphrahat	quotation, high confidence	337-345
Deut 10:16	Demonstration 11.6 · Aphrahat	quotation, high confidence	337-345
Deut 10:16	Prologue to the Commentary on Galatians · Ambrosiaster	quotation, high confidence	ca. 366–384
Deut 10:16	Commentary on Romans 2:28–29 · Ambrosiaster	quotation, high confidence	ca. 366–384
Deut 10:16	Exposition of Psalm 118 12.2.1 · Ambrose	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 386-397

Deuteronomy 10:17

For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty, and awesome God, showing no partiality and accepting no bribe.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Deut 10:17	Dialogue with Trypho 16.1 · Justin Martyr	quotation, high confidence	ca. 155–160
Deut 10:17	Dialogue with Trypho 55.1 · Justin Martyr	quotation, high confidence	ca. 155–160
Deut 10:17	Miscellanies 6.3.30 · Clement of Alexandria	quotation, high confidence	ca. 198–203
Deut 10:17	Homilies 16.6 · Anonymous	quotation, high confidence	4th century (reworking earlier material)
Deut 10:17	Homilies 16.7 · Anonymous	quotation, high confidence	4th century (reworking earlier material)
Deut 10:17	Homilies 18.4 · Anonymous	echo, low confidence	4th century (reworking earlier material)
Deut 10:17	Recognitions 2.41 · Anonymous	quotation, high confidence	Greek original 3rd–4th century; Rufinus's Latin translation before 407
Deut 10:17	Recognitions 2.44 · Anonymous	quotation, high confidence	Greek original 3rd–4th century; Rufinus's Latin translation before 407
Deut 10:17	Commentary on Galatians 4.8 · Marius Victorinus	allusion, low confidence	ca. 360–363
Deut 10:17	Exposition of Psalm 118 2.14.3 · Ambrose	allusion, low confidence	ca. 386-397
Deut 10:17	On the Christian Life 8 · Fastidius	quotation, high confidence	ca. 411-430

Deuteronomy 10:18

He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Deut 10:18	On the Christian Life 8 · Fastidius	quotation, high confidence	ca. 411-430

Deuteronomy 10:19

So you also must love the foreigner, since you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Deut 10:19	On the Christian Life 8 · Fastidius	quotation, high confidence	ca. 411-430

Deuteronomy 10:20

You are to fear the LORD your God and serve Him. Hold fast to Him and take your oaths in His name.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Deut 10:20	PG 12:1523 (Ps 72 LXX) · Origen	quotation, high confidence	ca. 220-254
Deut 10:20	Against the Heathen 46 · Athanasius of Alexandria	quotation, medium confidence	ca. 318–325
Deut 10:20	Tractates on the Psalms 118.4.2 · Hilary of Poitiers	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 360–367
Deut 10:20	Exposition of Psalm 118 15.33.2 · Ambrose	allusion, high confidence	ca. 386-397

Deuteronomy 10:21

He is your praise and He is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome wonders that your eyes have seen.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Deut 10:21	Preparation for the Gospel 8.9.24 · Eusebius of Caesarea	quotation, medium confidence	ca. 313–324

Deuteronomy 10:22

Your fathers went down to Egypt, seventy in all, and now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Deut 10:22	On First Principles 4.3.11 · Origen	quotation, high confidence	ca. 220–230 (Rufinus's translation 398)
Deut 10:22	Homilies on Exodus 11.5 · Origen	allusion, high confidence	ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Deut 10:22	Ancoratus 78.1 · Epiphanius of Salamis	allusion, high confidence	374