Proverbs 8:26 (WEB)
while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world.
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 · 5
Gregory of Nyssa
““The Lord made,” she says, “lands, even uninhabited, and the inhabited extremes of the earth under heaven.”” — editor's note: Prov. viii. 26 (LXX.).
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“Chapter XXII.—Texts Explained; Sixthly, the Context of Proverbs viii. 22 Vz.” — the author cites it
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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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Hilary of Poitiers
“When above the winds He made the clouds huge in the upper air, and when He placed securely the springs under the heaven, and when He made firm the foundations of the earth, I was by Him, joining all things together.” — editor's note: Prov. viii. 26–30 (LXX.).
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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 · 3
Cited together in Ecclesiastical History I.6.
Cited together in Ecclesiastical History I.6.
Cited together in Ecclesiastical History I.6.