Deuteronomy 7 in the early church

49 passages quote, allude to, or echo Deuteronomy 7, 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 7:1

When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you—

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Deut 7:1Homilies on Ezekiel 6.3 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 238–250 (Jerome's translation in the 380s)
Deut 7:1Book of Rules 4 · Tyconiusallusion, medium confidenceca. 380
Deut 7:1–5Book of Heresies 27.2 · Philastrius of Bresciaallusion, medium confidenceca. 380s
Deut 7:1Explanation of Twelve Psalms 43.9.1 · Ambroseallusion, medium confidenceca. 387-397
Deut 7:1Explanation of Twelve Psalms 43.9.3 · Ambroseallusion, high confidenceca. 387-397
Deut 7:1Formulae of Spiritual Understanding 9 · Eucherius of Lyonquotation, high confidenceca. 420-430
Deut 7:1The Conferences 3.19 · John Cassianquotation, high confidenceca. 426–429
Deut 7:1The Conferences 5.16 · John Cassianquotation, high confidenceca. 426–429

Deuteronomy 7:2

and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you to defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.

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Deut 7:2–4On Not Agreeing with Heretics 2 · Lucifer of Cagliariquotation, high confidenceca. 356–361
Deut 7:2Sermon 62.17 · Augustine of Hippoallusion, high confidenceca. 391-430
Deut 7:2The Conferences 3.19 · John Cassianquotation, high confidenceca. 426–429
Deut 7:2The Conferences 5.16 · John Cassianquotation, high confidenceca. 426–429

Deuteronomy 7:3

Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,

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Deut 7:3Against Marcion 5.7 · Tertullianallusion, medium confidence207/208 (third edition, completed later)
Deut 7:3On Monogamy 7 · Tertullianallusion, medium confidenceca. 210–217
Deut 7:3Panarion (Adversus Haereses), Haer. 1-64 61.5.4 · Epiphanius of Salamisallusion, high confidence374-377
Deut 7:3Exposition of Luke 8.2 · Ambroseallusion, low confidenceca. 386–389
Deut 7:3–5Deuteronomy, lines 53–77 · Cyprianus Gallusallusion, high confidenceearly 5th cent.
Deut 7:3On Adulterous Marriages 1.20 · Augustine of Hippoallusion, high confidenceca. 419–421
Deut 7:3On Adulterous Marriages 1.25 · Augustine of Hippoquotation, high confidenceca. 419–421
Deut 7:3The Conferences 3.19 · John Cassianquotation, high confidenceca. 426–429
Deut 7:3The Conferences 8.21 · John Cassianquotation, high confidenceca. 426–429

Deuteronomy 7:4

because they will turn your sons away from following Me to serve other gods. Then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and He will swiftly destroy you.

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Deut 7:4On Adulterous Marriages 1.25 · Augustine of Hippoquotation, high confidenceca. 419–421
Deut 7:4The Conferences 8.21 · John Cassianquotation, high confidenceca. 426–429

Deuteronomy 7:5

Instead, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their idols in the fire.

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Deut 7:5Commentary on 1 Corinthians 10:30 · Ambrosiasterallusion, high confidenceca. 366–384
Deut 7:5On Cain and Abel 1.44 · Ambroseallusion, medium confidenceca. 375-378
Deut 7:5Book of Heresies 147.2 · Philastrius of Bresciaquotation, high confidenceca. 380s
Deut 7:5Sermon 62.17 · Augustine of Hippoquotation, high confidenceca. 391-430
Deut 7:5Part 3, chapter 38 · Quodvultdeus of Carthagequotation, high confidenceca. 445-450

Deuteronomy 7:6

For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of the earth.

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Deut 7:6Letter 251 · Gregory of Nazianzusallusion, medium confidenceca. 360–390
Deut 7:6Oration 34.4 · Gregory of Nazianzusallusion, medium confidenceca. 362–383
Deut 7:6Letter 121.9 · Jeromeallusion, high confidenceca. 370–419

Deuteronomy 7:7

The LORD did not set His affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than the other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.

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Deut 7:7Eclogae on Exodus-Judges, column 803 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 220-254

Deuteronomy 7:9

Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion for a thousand generations of those who love Him and keep His commandments.

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Deut 7:91 Clement 60.1 · Clement of Romeecho, medium confidenceca. 95–97 (range ca. 70–100)

Deuteronomy 7:13

He will love you and bless you and multiply you. He will bless the fruit of your womb and the produce of your land—your grain, new wine, and oil, the young of your herds and the lambs of your flocks—in the land that He swore to your fathers to give you.

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Deut 7:13Letter 57.11 · Jeromeallusion, medium confidenceca. 370–419

Deuteronomy 7:14

You will be blessed above all peoples; among you there will be no barren man or woman or livestock.

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Deut 7:14Homilies on Ezekiel 4.1 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 238–250 (Jerome's translation in the 380s)
Deut 7:14Commentary on the Song of Songs 0.66 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 240–245 (Rufinus's translation ca. 410)
Deut 7:14Demonstration 18.1 · Aphrahatquotation, high confidence337-345
Deut 7:14On the Destruction of Jerusalem 3.6 · Anonymousallusion, medium confidenceca. 370
Deut 7:14Letters 41.1 · Paulinus of Nolaallusion, low confidenceca. 394–413

Deuteronomy 7:18

But do not be afraid of them. Be sure to remember what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and all Egypt:

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Deut 7:18Preparation for the Gospel 8.9.24 · Eusebius of Caesareaquotation, medium confidenceca. 313–324

Deuteronomy 7:21

Do not be terrified by them, for the LORD your God, who is among you, is a great and awesome God.

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Deut 7:21The Conferences 5.14 · John Cassianquotation, high confidenceca. 426–429

Deuteronomy 7:22

The LORD your God will drive out these nations before you little by little. You will not be enabled to eliminate them all at once, or the wild animals would multiply around you.

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Deut 7:22Homilies on Joshua 21.2 · Origenallusion, medium confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Deut 7:22On the Spirit and the Letter 1 · Augustine of Hippoallusion, high confidence412
Deut 7:22On the Spirit and the Letter 62 · Augustine of Hippoallusion, high confidence412
Deut 7:22The Conferences 5.14 · John Cassianquotation, high confidenceca. 426–429

Deuteronomy 7:23

But the LORD your God will give them over to you and throw them into great confusion, until they are destroyed.

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Deut 7:23The Conferences 5.14 · John Cassianquotation, high confidenceca. 426–429

Deuteronomy 7:25

You must burn up the images of their gods; do not covet the silver and gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared by it; for it is detestable to the LORD your God.

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Deut 7:25Letter 47.3 · Augustine of Hippoquotation, high confidenceca. 386–430

Deuteronomy 7:26

And you must not bring any detestable thing into your house, or you, like it, will be set apart for destruction. You are to utterly detest and abhor it, because it is set apart for destruction.

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Deut 7:26Letter 46.1 · Augustine of Hippoquotation, high confidenceca. 386–430
Deut 7:26Letter 47.3 · Augustine of Hippoquotation, high confidenceca. 386–430