Proverbs 8:27 (WEB)
When he established the heavens, I was there. When he set a circle on the surface of the deep,
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 · 16
Gregory of Nyssa
“…by an indirect import, and we may judge of the obscurity of this particular passage from its context where he says, “When He set His throne upon the winds,” and all the similar expressions.” — editor's note: Proverbs viii. 27 (LXX).
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Irenaeus of Lyons
“I was He in whom He rejoiced, and throughout all time I was daily glad before His face, when He rejoiced at the completion of the world, and was delighted in the sons of men.”” — editor's note: Prov. viii. 27–31.
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Tertullian
“I was He in whom He took delight; moreover, I daily rejoiced in His presence: for He rejoiced when He had finished the world, and amongst the sons of men did He show forth His pleasure.”” — editor's note: Prov. viii. 27–31.
Read the whole comment“…all things) which are beneath the sky, I was by, arranging all things with Him; I was by, in whom He delighted; and daily, too, did I rejoice in His presence.”” — editor's note: Prov. viii. 27–30.
Read the whole comment“This is the perfect nativity of the Word, when He proceeds forth from God—formed by Him first to devise and think out all things under the name of Wisdom—“The Lord created or formed me as the beginning of His ways;” then afterward begotten, to carry all into effect—“When He prepared the heaven, I was present with Him.”” — editor's note: Ver. 27.
Read the whole comment“…their position so perversely, as to render inadmissible the singleness of that Wisdom which says, “When He prepared the heaven, I was present with Him?”—even though the apostle asks, “Who hath known the mind of the Lord, or who hath been His counsellor?” meaning, of course, to except that wisdom which was…” — editor's note: Prov. viii. 27.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“Accordingly, though He thus speaks, yet He taught also that He Himself existed before this, when He said, ‘Before Abraham came to be, I am;’ and ‘when He prepared the heavens, I was present with Him;’ and ‘I was with Him disposing things.’” — editor's note: Prov. viii. 27, 30, LXX.
Read the whole comment“Chapter XXII.—Texts Explained; Sixthly, the Context of Proverbs viii. 22 Vz.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment- Athanasius of Alexandria, Against the Arians III.5Discourse III
“Not then when the heaven was made by Him, nor when He was with the Father Himself, the Word ‘disposing all things,’ nor before He became man did He say it, but when ‘the Word became flesh.’” — editor's note: Prov. viii. 27, LXX.
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Justin Martyr
“And David predicted that He would be born from the womb before sun and moon, according to the Father’s will, and made Him known, being Christ, as God strong and to be worshipped.”” — editor's note: Justin puts “sun and moon” instead of “Lucifer.” [Ps. cx. 3, Sept, compounded with Prov. viii. 27.] Maranus says, David did predict, not that Christ would be…
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Ambrose of Milan
“For the Son Himself, Who is the Wisdom of God, says: “When He prepared the heavens I was present with Him.”” — editor's note: Prov. viii. 27.
Read the whole comment“For neither have they climbed up into the heavens, nor measured the sky, nor examined the universe with their eyes; for none of them was with God in the beginning, none of them has said of God: “When He was preparing the heavens I was with Him, I was with Him as a master workman, I was he in whom He delighted.”” — editor's note: Prov. viii. 27, 30.
Read the whole comment“Wisdom says: “When He was preparing the heavens I was with Him, when He was making the fountains of waters.”” — editor's note: Prov. viii. 27.
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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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Augustine of Hippo
“No; but the wisdom of God, by whom all things were made, was there, and wisdom insinuates itself into holy souls, and makes them the friends of God and His prophets, and noiselessly informs them of His works.” — editor's note: Prov. viii. 27.
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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 · 17
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 76.
Cited together in Against Hermogenes Chapter 18.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 19.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 19.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 19.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 76.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 76.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 76.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 76.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 76.
Cited together in Against Hermogenes Chapter 18 and 2 other places.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 7 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Against Hermogenes Chapter 18 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Against Eunomius I.21.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 7 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Against Hermogenes Chapter 18 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 76.