Proverbs 8:30 (WEB)
then I was the craftsman by his side. I was a delight day by day, always rejoicing before him,
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 · 17
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“…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 present with Him.” — editor's note: Prov. viii. 30.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“And the Subsistence existing, of course there was forthwith its Expression and Image; for God’s Image is not delineated from without, but God Himself hath begotten it; in which seeing Himself, He has delight, as the Son Himself says, ‘I was His delight.’” — editor's note: Prov. viii. 30.
Read the whole comment“For if He was not, or was indeed, but afterwards was promoted, how were all things made by Him, or how in Him, were He not perfect, did the Father delight?” — editor's note: Prov. viii. 30.
Read the whole comment“…Word is not a creature, but alone proper to the Father, in whom all things are disposed, and He is celebrated by all, as Framer; for ‘I was by Him disposing;’ and ‘My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.’” — editor's note: Prov. viii. 30, LXX.
Read the whole comment“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
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“Who saith, ‘I was by Him as one brought up with Him: I was daily His delight?’” — editor's note: Prov. viii. 30
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Ambrose of Milan
“The Son, moreover,—to consider now our fourth premiss,—is not self-assertive, for He, the Divine Assessor, hath done nought that is not in agreement with His Father’s Will.” — editor's note: Lat. “consiliarius.” Cf. Prov. viii. 29, 30.
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“Therefore this comeliness, which shone forth in each single part of the world, was resplendent in the whole, as the Book of Wisdom shows, saying: “I existed, in whom He rejoiced when He was glad at the completion of the world.”” — editor's note: Prov. viii 30, 31 [LXX.].
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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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Clement of Alexandria
“For He was the Wisdom “in which” the Sovereign God “delighted.”” — editor's note: Prov. viii. 30.
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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 · 24
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 19.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 19.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 19.
Cited together in Against the Arians I.5.
Cited together in Against the Arians I.5.
Cited together in Against the Arians I.5.
Cited together in Against the Arians I.5.
Cited together in Against Hermogenes Chapter 18 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 19 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.6.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.6.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.6.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.6.
Cited together in Against Hermogenes Chapter 18 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.46.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.46.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VII.2.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.6.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.6.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.6.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.6.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.6.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VII.2.
Cited together in Against the Arians I.5.