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Deuteronomy 11:26

Western Saints

Bonaventure

Behold, the wondrous benefit of observance and the wondrous calamity of transgression. Whence the Lord through Moses: "Behold, I set before thee blessing and curse: blessing, if thou shalt keep My commandments: curse, if thou shalt not keep them." The Lord places us in the middle and works with us wonderfully. When someone wishes to demonstrate something to another, he proceeds against him by a twofold way, namely by ostensive reasoning and by reasoning leading to an impossibility. …

Collationes de Decem Praeceptis, Collation 1 ↗