Original Douay–Rheims AnnotationsDeuteronomy 32
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Read Deuteronomy 32 in the BibleDeuteronomy 32:43
Praise his people.
◦ In the people of the Jews were always some good, and worthy of praise, that served God; and sometimes suffered persecution for justice, whose blood God promised here to revenge, and for their sakes to be merciful to others. All which we see was performed, in that God reduced them from captivity, and conserved them after in their country till Christ's time, for so he was propitious to the land of his people.
- ◦ Always some good in the Church of the old Testament.
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Deuteronomy 32:18
Forgotten our Lord.
◦ Calvin (li. 1. Instit. c. 11. parag. 9.) contending that it is idolatry to worship Christ in his picture, saith the idolatry committed about the molten calf (Exod. 32.) consisted in worshipping the true God in that image of a calf: affirming that the Jews were not so inconsiderate, as not to remember, that it was God which had brought them out of the Land of Ægypt. Quite contrary to this text, which saith: God that begat thee thou hast forsaken, and hast forgotten our Lord thy Creator. Calvin therefore was either ignorant or forgetful, that the Holy Ghost here chargeth them to have forsaken and forgotten God the Creator; or else (which is worse) knowing and remembering it, he was most impudent in avouching the contrary.