Deuteronômio 32
John Chrysostom · Comentário Patrístico (catena)
Deuteronômio 32:15
"They ate" and drank "and kicked." When fed with their manna, they ought not to have asked for luxury, seeing they had known the evils which proceed from it. And they acted precisely as if a free child, when sent to school, should ask to be reckoned with the slaves and to wait on them. So did these people also in seeking Egypt. While receiving all needful sustenance, such as becomes a free person, and already sitting at his father's table, he still has a longing for the ill-savored and noisy one of the servants. — HOMILIES ON COLOSSIANS 4
Deuteronômio 32:15
One must not so much admire those saints who in the height of sorrow were so pious and lovers of wisdom as those who, even when the turbulence subsided and tranquility ensued, remained in the same goodness and earnestness. — HOMILIES ON REPENTANCE AND ALMSGIVING 4.8
Deuteronômio 32:15
For we have continuous need for a curb to keep us walking straight on the path, since even the Jews wandered from the path and drew down upon themselves the anger of heaven. When they enjoyed considerable ease and had become free after their harsh bondage in Egypt, they should have given greater thanks and been more eager to offer their praise to the Master. They should have been better disposed toward him who had bestowed such benefits upon them. But they did quite the opposite and were ruined by the ease which was theirs in abundance. On this account the Holy Scripture accuses them and says, "Jacob ate his fill; the darling became fat and frisky." — BAPTISMAL INSTRUCTIONS 5.16