OLD TESTAMENT

Deuteronomy 30:14

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But the word is very near to you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it.

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Verse 14. Heart. Septuagint add, “and in thy hands.” Thou art often obliged to talk about the law, and to learn it by heart. Nothing hinders thee, with the grace of God, from putting it in practice. Calmet.—No teacher could more plainly inculcate the liberty of the human will. Theod. q. 38. Saint Augustine de Nat. 69. Saint Ambrose and so forth Worthington.

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