Proverbs 8:28 (WEB)
when he established the clouds above, when the springs of the deep became strong,
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 · 10
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“In like manner the same Wisdom says of the waters, “Also when He made the fountains strong, things which are under the sky, I was fashioning them along with Him.”” — editor's note: Prov. viii. 28.
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“…under the name of Wisdom, and in another passage under the appellation of the Word, which was initiated for the works of God which “strengthened the heavens;” “by which all things were made,” “and without which nothing was made.”” — editor's note: Ver. 28.
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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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Gregory of Nyssa
“But to those who quote from the Proverbs the passage, “the Lord created me,” and think that they hereby produce a strong argument that the Creator and Maker of all things was created, we must answer that the Only-begotten God was made for us many things.” — editor's note: Prov. viii. 28.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“Moreover, I was daily rejoicing in His sight, all the while that He was rejoicing in the world that He had made, and in the sons of men.” — editor's note: Prov. viii. 28–31.
Read the whole comment“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 · 13
Cited together in Against Hermogenes Chapter 18.
Cited together in On the Faith.
Cited together in On the Faith and 1 other place.
Cited together in On the Faith and 2 other places.
Cited together in Against Hermogenes Chapter 32 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On the Faith.
Cited together in On the Faith.
Cited together in On the Faith.
Cited together in On the Faith.
Cited together in On the Faith.
Cited together in Against Hermogenes Chapter 18 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On the Faith.
Cited together in On the Faith.