THEOSISEphraem the Syrian
Look, my people are protected and marked with blessings, and because of this, they will be safeguarded in their divine inheritance.
Deuteronomy 32:34Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Are not these things stored up with me, and sealed up in my treasures?
הֲלֹא־ה֖וּא כָּמֻ֣ס עִמָּדִ֑י חָתֻ֖ם בְּאוֹצְרֹתָֽי׃
The Church Fathers on this verse
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Palaea Historica
and mentioned his demise, asking, ‘Are not all your transgressions and offenses gathered from me and secured in my treasury until the day of reckoning against you?’ Even though you currently inhabit the territories of the nations, your iniquities remain sealed until the day when ‘I will take vengeance when their foot shall tremble; for the day of their ruin is at hand’ (Deuteronomy 32:35).
Cross references
Passages read together with this verse.
- Job 14:17Thou hast sealed up my offences as it were in a bag, but hast cured my iniquity.
- Hos 13:12The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up, his sin is hidden.
- Jer 2:22Though thou wash thyself with nitre, and multiply to thyself the herb borith, thou art stained in thy iniquity before me, saith the Lord God.
- Rom 2:5But according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou treasurest up to thyself wrath, against the day of wrath and revelation of the just judgment of God:
- 1 Cor 4:5Therefore, judge not before the time: until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts. And then shall every man have praise from God.
- Rev 20:12And I saw the dead, great and small, standing in the presence of the throne. And the books were opened: and another book was opened, which was the book of life. And the dead were judged by those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
- Rev 20:13And the sea gave up the dead that were in it: and death and hell gave up their dead that were in them. And they were judged, every one according to their works.