Psalm 10:3 (WEB)
For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings. He blesses the greedy and condemns the LORD.
Fathers and councils · 24
Athanasius of Alexandria
“…hath a vineyard;’ Who is this ‘Well-beloved’ but the Only-begotten Son? as also in the hundred and ninth, ‘From the womb I begat Thee before the morning star,’ concerning which I shall speak afterwards; and in the Proverbs, ‘Before the hills He begat me;’ and in Daniel, ‘And the form of the Fourth is like the Son of…” — editor's note: Ps. cx. 3, LXX.
Read the whole comment“Texts from the Old Testament continued; especially Ps. cx. 3.” — the author cites it
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“And how is it also that they are not abashed at that which is written, From the womb before the morning-star have I begotten thee: also this, He shall endure with the sun, and before the moon, from generation to generation.” — editor's note: Ps. cx. 3: “From the womb of the morning thou hast the dew of thy youth” (R.V.).
Read the whole comment“From the womb, before the morning star, have I begotten Thee.” — editor's note: Ps. cx. 3. “From the womb of the morning thou hast the dew of thy youth” (R.V.). There is a remarkable various reading in Codd. Roe, Casaub. Τό εἶ σύ, ἄχρονον…
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Clement of Alexandria
“For “before the morning star it was;” and “in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”” — editor's note: Ps. cx. 3. Septuagint has, “before the morning star.”
Read the whole comment““Awake,” He says, “thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light,”—Christ, the Sun of the Resurrection, He “who was born before the morning star,” and with His beams bestows life.” — editor's note: Ps. cx. 3.
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Ambrose of Milan
“We read that the Son is begotten, inasmuch as the Father saith: “I brought thee forth from the womb before the morning star.”” — editor's note: Ps. cx. 3.
Read the whole comment“In its extent, the preposition “before” reaches back into the past without end or limit, and so “Before Abraham was, I am,” clearly need not mean “after Adam,” just as “before the Morning Star” need not mean “after the angels.”” — editor's note: Ps. cx. 3.
Read the whole comment“He says: “I have begotten,” and that more than once, witnessing to Himself as begetting.” — editor's note: Ps. cx. 3.
Read the whole comment“…because He is the Word given forth from the heart of the Father, because He came forth from the Father, because He is begotten of the “bowels of the Father,” because the Father is the Fountain and Root of the Son’s being.” — editor's note: Ps. cx. 3.
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Augustine of Hippo
““For the sinner is praised,” saith he, “in the desires of his soul” (ver. 3).” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“For this is, brethren, to consent with a thief, and to make with an adulterer thy portion: for even if thou committest not, and approvest what is committed, thou art an accessory in the deed: for “the sinner is praised in the longings of his soul, and he that doeth iniquity shall be blessed.”” — editor's note: Ps. x. 3.
Read the whole comment“…to Thy mercy, when Thou chastenest and teachest those whom Thou lovest, to save them from the torments of eternal punishment: as it is said in another Psalm, “The sinner hath provoked the Lord: He will not require it of him according to the greatness of His wrath.”” — editor's note: Ps. x. 3, Lat.
Read the whole comment“…wishes him to go blind over the precipice of his lusts, haply never to return; he praises him, “For the sinner is praised in the desires of his soul;” he applies to him the unction of adulation; behold, he hates, and praises.” — editor's note: Ps. x. 3.
Read the whole comment“For there is less sin, if people do not praise the sinner in the desires of his soul, and speak good of him who practiseth iniquities.” — editor's note: Ps. x. 3 [ix. 24]
Read the whole comment“…vanity he is checked by no reproofs, but he is moreover extolled with praises: “Because,” as it is written, “the sinner is praised in the desires of his soul.”” — editor's note: Ps. x. 3
Read the whole comment“…too, with most people praising him, since, as divine Scripture says, “The wicked is praised in his heart’s desire: and he who works iniquity is blessed,” gratifies all his most criminal and flagitious desires; when, doubtless, although even so he would be wretched, yet he would be less wretched, if he could have…” — editor's note: Ps. x. 3
Read the whole comment“For, as our Scriptures say, “the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the Lord abhorreth.”” — editor's note: Ps. x. 3.
Read the whole comment“…of, and published far and wide; and thus, as it is written, “The wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the Lord abhorreth.”” — editor's note: Ps. x. 3
Read the whole comment“To credit vain-glorious persons with the things they profess, is surely a huge vice, and not a virtue; and yet you know how common is the laudatory fame of such; for, as Scripture says, “The sinner is praised in the desires of his soul, and he who practises iniquity is blessed.”” — editor's note: Ps. x. 3. Augustin here, as usual, follows the Septuagint. הִלֵּל (praise), however, is not passive, but, instead of its usual accusative, takes עַל with the…
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“…present to Himself His flock resplendent and spotless and worthy of the fold on high, in the habitation of them that rejoice, in the splendour of the saints, so that in His temple everyone, both flock and shepherds together may say, Glory, in Christ Jesus our Lord, to Whom be all glory for ever and ever.” — editor's note: Ps. cx. 3 (LXX.).
Read the whole comment““In the Beginning was The Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God,” and “With Thee is the Beginning,” and “He who calleth her The Beginning from generations.”” — editor's note: Ps. cx. 3.
Read the whole comment“And that was that the Word of God Himself—Who is before all worlds, the Invisible, the Incomprehensible, the Bodiless, Beginning of Beginning, the Light of Light, the Source of Life and Immortality, the Image of the Archetypal Beauty, the immovable Seal, the unchangeable Image, the Father’s Definition…” — editor's note: Cf. Light of Light begotten. Christ our Lord is called “The Beginning of the Creation of God, because by Him all things were made; and He is of the Beginning,…
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Aphrahat
“Again he said:—In the glories of holiness, from the womb, from of old, have I begotten thee, a child.” — editor's note: Ps. cx. 3 (Pesh).
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Cross-references · 22
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.8.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith III.9.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 100.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.8.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith III.9.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 100.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.8.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith III.9.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.8.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.8.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.8.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 39.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 39.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 39.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 39.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.8.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith III.9.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith III.9.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith III.9.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith III.9.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 39.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 39.