Holy Scripture

Deuteronomy 4:33

A church father on this verse
“"Ye have neither heard His voice at any time." How then saith Moses, "The Lord spake, and Moses answered"; and David, "He had heard a tongue which he knew not"; and Moses again, "Is there any such people which hath heard the voice of God?" "Nor seen His shape." Yet Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel, are said to have seen…”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — HOMILIES ON THE GOSPEL OF JOHN 40

Source: Septuagint

Original

33if a nation have heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard and hast lived;

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In context

31Because the Lord thy God is a God of pity: he will not forsake thee, nor destroy thee; he will not forget the covenant of thy fathers, which the Lord swore to them.

32Ask of the former days which were before thee, from the day when God created man upon the earth, and beginning at the one end of heaven to the other end of heaven, if there has happened anything like to this great event, if such a thing has been heard:

— Deuteronomy 4:33 —

34if God has assayed to go and take to himself a nation out of the midst of another nation with trial, and with signs, and with wonders, and with war, and with a mighty hand, and with a high arm, and with great sights, according to all the things which the Lord our God did in Egypt in thy sight.

35So that thou shouldest know that the Lord thy God he is God, and there is none beside him.

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