"Deuteronomy"
These are the words Moses spoke to all Israel in the desert east of the Jordan...--Deuteronomy 1:1.
Deuteronomy is essentially a very long sermon by Moses to his people before his departure. And like many good sermons, it's not a telling of something new, but a repeating of something that had already been told, but needed a re-telling, a reminding. Much of what is here, though certainly not all, has already been spoken in the first four "books of Moses." For example, chapter 5 is a re-telling of the Ten Commandments; hence he gives The Law a second time, which is what the name "Deuteronomy" means: Second giving of the Law (Deutero = second; Nomos = Law).
I suppose a few of us "get" something the first time we hear it, but most of us need a second or third or fourth hearing of it, don't we? In addition, the life of Faith is really a life of repeated good behavior, or as we've been learning and celebrating from Eugene
Peterson (originally F. Nietzsche), "a long obedience in the same direction." Repetition is good. Welcome to Deuteronomy
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