Deuteronomy 4:32
For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it?
KJV
Interroga de diebus antiquis, qui fuerunt ante te ex die quo creavit Deus hominem super terram, a summo cælo usque ad summum ejus, si facta est aliquando hujuscemodi res, aut umquam cognitum est,
Vulgate
ἐπερωτήσατε ἡμέρας προτέρας τὰς γενομένας προτέρας σου ἀπὸ τῆς ἡμέρας ἧς ἔκτισεν ὁ θεὸς ἄνθρωπον ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, καὶ ἐπὶ τὸ ἄκρον τοῦ οὐρανοῦ ἕως ἄκρου τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, εἰ γέγονεν κατὰ τὸ ῥῆμα τὸ μέγα τοῦτο, εἰ ἤκουσται τοιοῦτο·
LXX
For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and from the one end of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it?
ASV
כִּ֣י שְׁאַל נָא֩ לְ/יָמִ֨ים רִֽאשֹׁנִ֜ים אֲשֶׁר הָי֣וּ לְ/פָנֶ֗י/ךָ לְ/מִן הַ/יּוֹם֙ אֲשֶׁר֩ בָּרָ֨א אֱלֹהִ֤ים אָדָם֙ עַל הָ/אָ֔רֶץ וּ/לְ/מִ/קְצֵ֥ה הַ/שָּׁמַ֖יִם וְ/עַד קְצֵ֣ה הַ/שָּׁמָ֑יִם הֲ/נִֽהְיָ֗ה כַּ/דָּבָ֤ר הַ/גָּדוֹל֙ הַ/זֶּ֔ה א֖וֹ הֲ/נִשְׁמַ֥ע כָּמֹֽ/הוּ
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
23 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Source. Translated by J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, and revised by George B. Stevens. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 11. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1889.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210206.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Adven…
45. For in this passage, not as signifying the Essence of His Godhead, nor His own everlasting and genuine generation from the Father, has the Word spoken by Solomon, but on the other hand His manhood and Economy towards us. And, as I said before, He has not said 'I am a creature,' or 'I became a creature,' but only 'He created.' For the creatures, having a created essence, are…
Cross-references
- 2Sam 7:23 — And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy lan
- Deut 10:21 — He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.
- Deut 32:7 — Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.
- Deut 32:7 — Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.
- Exod 34:10 — And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which thou art shall see the w
- Gen 1:27 — So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
- Gen 21:7 — And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? for I have born him a son in his old age.
- Jer 27:5 — I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto me.
- Job 8:8 — For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:
- Job 8:8 — For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:
- Joel 1:2 — Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?
- Joel 2:21 — Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do great things.
- Matt 24:31 — And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
- Ps 44:1 — We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.
- Ps 111:6 — He hath shewed his people the power of his works, that he may give them the heritage of the heathen.
- Ps 147:20 — He hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the LORD.