| Deuteronomy 32:1
| Hear, *O ye heavens, the things I speak, let the earth give ear to the words of my mouth.
| Year of the World 2553, Year before Christ 1451. Speak. Hebrew and Septuagint, "Heaven attend, and I will speak." (Haydock) --- Never was there an exordium more pompous, or better adapted to the subject. Moses calls those who never die to witness what he asserts, as if to insinuate that these truths ought never to be forgotten. See Numbers 4:6. Virgil (Aeneid xii.) imitates this style, Esto nunc sol testis et haec mihi terra precanti, (Calmet) which he puts in the mouth of Aeneas, to whom Latinus replies, Haec eadem Aenea, terram, mare, sidera juro.
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