God is the truth. I. From S. Columbanus to Pope Gregory . God is the truth. O Lord, Thou seest, Thou knowest, That to none my heart can tell The joy and the love and the sorrow, The tale that my heart knows well. Deuteronomy 32:33 Context. One does not proceed far without making some discoveries which may account, to a certain extent, for the neglect of Greek hymnody by those men who are best qualified to pursue the study of it. Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps. 33 Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps. If a man shall trust in the gorgeous pomp of uncommanded mysteries, if he shall consider that there resides some mystic efficacy in a priest, and that by uttering certain words a blessing is infallibly received, we tell him that his religion is a vain thing. --TITUS ii. I suppose that it is true to-day that hundreds of young men and women who are listening for a call and really want to know what their life's mission is, perhaps find it the greatest problem they ever had. Cancel. But to Thee, O my God, I can tell it-- To Thee, and …Frances Bevan—Hymns of Ter Steegen, Suso, and Others, viiiWe have not treated the Latin Church after that fashion. A God of truth and without iniquity; just and right is he.' A God of truth and without iniquity; just and right is he.' It is no wonder that Moses craved attention, and that, to the end he may attain it from an hard hearted deaf people, The next attribute is God's truth. --TITUS ii. Deuteronomy 32:32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter: Deuteronomy 32:34 Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures? If a man shall trust in the gorgeous pomp of uncommanded mysteries, if he shall consider that there resides some mystic efficacy in a priest, and that by uttering certain words a blessing is infallibly received, we tell him that his religion is a vain thing. 30 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up? Their wine is the poison of dragons, And the cruel venom of asps. For instance, we don't know where Isaiah died, or how he died, but we know a great deal about the call God gave him, when he saw God on high and lifted up on His throne. Its terrible hopelessness, its bold expression of those difficulties with which man is surrounded on every side, the apparent fruitlessness of its quest after good, the unsatisfactory character, from a Christian standpoint, of its conclusion: all these points have made it, at one and the same time, an enigma to the superficial student of the Word, and the arsenal …F. Bible Language English. Deut 32:4. These are the principles of religion, and are so nearly conjoined together, that the one cannot be truly without the other, much less savingly. To the holy lord, and father in Christ, the Roman [pope], most fair ornament of the Church, a certain most august flower, as it were, of the whole of withering Europe, distinguished speculator, as enjoying a divine contemplation of purity (?) 33 Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruell venime of Aspes. From S. Columbanus to Pope Gregory [89] . Deuteronomy chapter 32 KJV (King James Version) 1 Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.. 2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:. 31 For their rocke is not as our Rocke, euen our enemies themselues being iudges. May he guide you to the grave, that you may there see the end of all earthly hopes, of all worldly pomp and show. (2) Deuteronomy 32:19-33, the chastisement and the need of its infliction by God; (3) Deuteronomy 32:34-42 , God‘s compassion upon the low and humbled state of His people. I am pleased to think, O holy pope, that it will seem to thee nothing extravagant, 'The Lord's portion is His people; Jacob is the lot of His inheritance.' 14. I choose these two texts because they together present us with the other side of the thought to that which I have elsewhere considered, that man's true treasure is in God. You might as well go to the Witch of Endor for grace as to a priest; and if you rely upon words, the …Charles Haddon Spurgeon—Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 8: 1863, At a Public Fast in July, First Sabbath, 1650. That great axiom of the religious consciousness, which pervades the whole of Scripture, is rapturously …Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture, I propose this morning, as God shall help me, to lead you to consider your latter end. 'Jesus Christ (Who) gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto Himself a peculiar people.' xxxii. The …John Brownlie—Hymns of the Holy Eastern Church, The Call of MosesThere is a great deal more room given in Scripture to the call of men to God's work than there is to their end. God is prima veritas, the pattern and prototype, Heinrich Suso Deut. In doing this, I shall thus divide my subject. (r) The fruit of the wicked are as poison, detestable to God, and dangerous for man.Deuteronomy 32:33 Parallel Commentaries, Religion --A RealityNow we will grant you this morning that much of the religion which is abroad in the world is a vain thing. God is prima veritas, the pattern and prototype …Thomas Watson—A Body of Divinity, The FindingHeinrich Suso Deut. Psa 57:10. [90] . Grace to thee and peace from God the Father [and] our [Lord] Jesus Christ.