They also recall the threats written in the Law. In the canticle of Moses the different ways that evils would happen to them were described. “The teeth of wild beasts I will send among them.” By wild beasts he meant their enemies. Then he adds, “I will deprive them of children by the foreign sword,” and, “I will scatter them.” They recall these threats, but they also remember the promise of good things: “You said that you would grant mercy to those who were repentant, freeing them from servitude and restoring their former freedom to them.”
[AD 458] Theodoret of Cyrus on Baruch 2:27