Deuteronomy 8:5

And thou shalt consider in thine heart Lit. know with thy heart; cp. -conscire sibi," and see above on Deuteronomy 7:9.

as a man chasteneth his son disciplineth, cp. Deuteronomy 4:36; Deuteronomy 11:2 q.v.; Hosea 11:1-4, also Deuteronomy 2:14 on the wilderness as a school of discipline. In Deut. which so frequently emphasises physical suffering and adversity as God's punishment for sin this explanation of them as signs not of His hostility, but of His fatherly providence, is remarkable. It anticipates the more developed doctrine of later O.T. writings and of the N.T.