THEOSISEphraem the Syrian
‘Loved the people’ either refers to the nation of Israel or illustrates that God harbors no animosity towards any of His creation and cherishes all nations.
Deuteronomy 33:3Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
He hath loved the people, all the saints are in his hand: and they that approach to his feet, shall receive of his doctrine.
אַ֚ף חֹבֵ֣ב עַמִּ֔ים כָּל־קְדֹשָׁ֖יו בְּיָדֶ֑ךָ וְהֵם֙ תֻּכּ֣וּ לְרַגְלֶ֔ךָ יִשָּׂ֖א מִדַּבְּרֹתֶֽיךָ׃
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Theodoret of Cyrus
All who are consecrated are in His care, and they are also in Your hands. Although they are inherently unseen, they are still within Your authority, as You are their Creator.
Cross references
Passages read together with this verse.
- Luke 10:39And she had a sister called Mary. who, sitting also at the Lord's feet, heard his word.
- Mal 1:2I have loved you, saith the Lord: and you have said: Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau brother to Jacob, saith the Lord, and I have loved Jacob,
- Deut 7:6Because thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God. The Lord thy God hath chosen thee, to be his peculiar people of all peoples that are upon the earth.
- Deut 7:8But because the Lord hath loved you, and hath kept his oath, which he swore to your fathers: and hath brought you out with a strong hand, and redeemed you from the house of bondage, out of the hand of Pharao the king of Egypt.
- Rom 8:35Who then shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation? Or distress? Or famine? Or nakedness? Or danger? Or persecution? Or the sword?
- Rom 8:39Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
- Acts 22:3And he saith: I am a Jew, born at Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city, at the feet of Gamaliel, taught according to the truth of the law of the fathers, zealous for the law, as also all you are this day:
- Col 3:3For you are dead: and your life is hid with Christ in God.