Ephesians 5:19 (WEB)
speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
Catechism · 2
Celebrating the Church's Liturgy
“"He who sings prays twice."” — Catechism footnote: Eph 5:19; St. Augustine, En. in Ps. 72,1: PL 36, 914; cf. Col 3:16.
In the Age of the Church
“"[Address] one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with all your heart."” — Catechism footnote: Eph 5:19; Col 3:16.
Fathers and councils · 8
John Damascene
“In psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, in contrition and in pity for the needy, let us believers worship the saints, as God also is most worshipped in such wise.” — editor's note: Ephes. v. 19.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“She however took the outrage for honour, and returned home, where, as was her wont, she kept up her attack upon him with her spiritual songs, just as the composer and teacher of the song laid the wicked spirit that vexed Saul.” — editor's note: Cf. Eph. v. 19
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Augustine of Hippo
“As I could, I have spoken; and as far as I can I see; and how far I see, I cannot speak.” — editor's note: [To spiritualize inebriation seems a difficult task; but as in heraldry we introduce the boar and the serpent for other qualities than their filth and their…
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Jerome
“The apostle says: “I will pray with the spirit and I will pray with the understanding also,” and to the Ephesians, “make melody in your hearts to the Lord.”” — editor's note: Eph. v. 19.
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Tertullian
“The command, to “sing to the Lord with psalms and hymns,” comes suitably from him who knew that those who “drank wine with drums and psalteries” were blamed by God.” — editor's note: Eph. v. 19.
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“What will her husband sing to her, or she to her husband?” — editor's note: See Eph. v. 19.
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“Between the two echo psalms and hymns; and they mutually challenge each other which shall better chant to their Lord.” — editor's note: Eph. v. 19; Col. iii. 16.
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Clement of Alexandria
“The apostle calls the psalm “a spiritual song.”” — editor's note: Eph. v. 19; Col. iii. 16.
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Cross-references · 19
Parallel passages
Ephesians 5:19 and Colossians 3:16 share the same wording (12 words).
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Cited together in To His Wife II.6.
Cited together in To His Wife II.6.