And found his heart faithful before you, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give it, I say, to his descendants, and have performed your words; for you are righteous:
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Bede
AD 735
All the people were weeping when they heard the words of the law. But because the same holy teachers who move the minds of their hearers to tears both with holy readings and with their devout exhortations also assuage those tears when they promise their hearers that eternal joys are to follow, it is rightly added: