And know ye this day: for [I speak] not with your children which have not known, and which have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his stretched out arm,
Ver. 2. And which have not seen.]
“ Segnius irritant animos demissa per aures,
Quam quae sunt oculis commissa fidelibua ” - Horat.
He speaks unto them as to eye-witncsses; and those that have such evidence and self-experience are usually more affected than those that have things by hearsay only. "Mine eye affects my heart." Lam 3:51