Proverbs 8:23 (WEB)
I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth existed.
Catechism · 2
The Creator
“Creation is revealed as the first step towards this covenant, the first and universal witness to God's all-powerful love. and so, the truth of creation is also expressed with growing vigour in the message of the prophets, the prayer of the psalms and the liturgy, and in the wisdom sayings of the Chosen People.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Is 44:24; Ps 104; Prov 8:22-31.
"I Believe in the Holy Spirit"
Mary, the all-holy ever-virgin Mother of God, is the masterwork of the mission of the Son and the Spirit in the fullness of time. For the first time in the plan of salvation and because his Spirit had prepared her, the Father found the dwelling…
Fathers and councils · 13
Gregory of Nyssa
“He is at once our foundation before the world to come, according to the words of Paul, who says, “Other foundation can no man lay than that is laid,” and it is true that “before the springs of the waters came forth, before the mountains were settled, before He made the depths, and before all hills, He begetteth Me.”” — editor's note: Prov. viii. 23–25 (not quite verbal, from the LXX.).
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Irenaeus of Lyons
“And again: “The Lord created me the beginning of His ways in His work: He set me up from everlasting, in the beginning, before He made the earth, before He established the depths, and before the fountains of waters gushed forth; before the mountains were made strong, and before all the hills, He brought me forth.”” — editor's note: Prov. viii. 22–25. [This is one of the favourite Messianic quotations of the Fathers, and is considered as the base of the first chapter of St. John’s Gospel.]
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Tertullian
“They did not even mention any Matter, but (said) that Wisdom was first set up, the beginning of His ways, for His works.” — editor's note: Prov. viii. 22, 23.
Read the whole comment“…of His ways, with a view to His own works, before He made the earth, before the mountains were settled; moreover, before all the hills did He beget me;” that is to say, He created and generated me in His own intelligence.” — editor's note: Prov. viii. 22–25.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“Before the mountains were settled, before the hills, was I brought forth.’” — editor's note: Prov. viii. 23.
Read the whole comment“For ye say that an offspring is the same as a work, writing ‘generated or made.’” — editor's note: γεννηθέντα ἢ ποιηθέντα; as if they were synonymous; in opposition to which the Nicene Creed says, γεννηθέντα ἢ ποιηθέντα. In like manner Arius in his letter to…
Read the whole comment“Chapter XXII.—Texts Explained; Sixthly, the Context of Proverbs viii. 22 Vz.” — the author cites it
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Eusebius of Caesarea
“I was the one in whom he delighted; daily I rejoiced before him at all times when he was rejoicing at having completed the world.”” — editor's note: Prov. viii. 22–25, 27, 28, 30, 31
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Origen
“In the beginning, before He formed the earth, before He brought forth the fountains of waters, before the mountains were made strong, before all the hills, He brought me forth.”” — editor's note: Prov. viii. 22–25. The reading in the text differs considerably from that of the Vulgate.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“…nature as the Maker; and so the Lord says, ‘God created me in the beginning of His way; I was set up from everlasting; before the hills was I brought forth.’” — editor's note: Prov. viii. 22–26 Sept.
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Ambrose of Milan
““In the beginning,” saith the Scripture, “before He made the earth, before He made the deeps, before He brought forth the springs of water, before all the hills He begat Me.”” — editor's note: Prov. viii. 23 ff.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“But when they say, “He begot me prior to all the Ages,” such statements, he says, are alleged to hold good concerning the seventh power.” — editor's note: Prov. viii. 22–24.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“When He made the strong clouds above the winds, and when He placed the strengthened fountains under heaven, when He made the mighty foundations of the earth, I was by His side, ordering them: I was He in whom He delighted: moreover, I daily rejoiced before His face in all time, when He rejoiced in the perfected earth.”” — editor's note: Prov. viii. 22–31.
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Cross-references · 18
Cited together in Against Hermogenes Chapter 45.
Cited together in Against Hermogenes Chapter 45.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies VI.9.
Cited together in Against Hermogenes Chapter 45.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith III.8.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith III.8.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith III.8.
Cited together in Against Hermogenes Chapter 45.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith III.8.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies VI.9.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies VI.9.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies VI.9.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies VI.9.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies VI.9.
Cited together in Ecclesiastical History I.6.
Cited together in Ecclesiastical History I.6.
Cited together in Against Hermogenes Chapter 45.
Cited together in Against Hermogenes Chapter 45.