Deuteronomy 32:1

Verse 1. Speak. Hebrew and Septuagint “Heaven attend, and I will speak.” Bible.—Never was there an exordium more pompous, or better adapted to the subject. Moses calls those who never die to witness what he asserts, as if to insinuate that these truths ought never to be forgotten. See Numbers 4:6. Virgil (xii.) imitates this style, Esto nunc sol testis & hæc mihi terra precanti, ( Calmet.) which puts inthe moth of Æneas, to whom Latinus replies, Hæc eadem Ænea, terram, mare, sidera juro.