Ver. 26. I call heaven and earth to witness against you— These expressions, says Calmet, are lively and animated. Moses again addresses the heaven and the earth, in the sacred song which he delivers before his death, ch. Deuteronomy 32:1. Here he in a manner conjures them, by all that is most respectable both in heaven and earth, not to incur those evils which await their disobedience. The best heathen writers make use of this mode of expression. See Virg. AEn. 12: ver. 176. 201. Esto nunc sol testis, & haec mihi terra precanti, &c.
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Deuteronomy 4:26
26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.